Into the War
$23.60
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
11 January 2012
Summary
Calvino’s autobiographical trilogy, newly translated by Martin McLaughlin.
Set in Italy in the summer of 1940, this trio of stories explores the relationships between the different generations caught up in the war as well as Calvino’s own experiences as a teenager.
In the title story, ‘Into the War’, we are given an insight into what life was really like for those too young to be conscripted into Mussolini’s army, while in ‘The Avanguardisti in Menton’, Calvino and his friends…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141193731 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141193735 |
| Author: | Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 11 January 2012 |
| Weight: | 104g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century
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About The Author
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino, one of Italy’s finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.
Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others.
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