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" Understanding Italo Calvino / "
by Beno Weiss.
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BL
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698933
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b521122
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| Main Entry
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Weiss, Beno,1933-
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| Title & Author
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Understanding Italo Calvino /\ by Beno Weiss.
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| Publication Statement
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Columbia, S.C. :: University of South Carolina Press,, c1993.
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| Series Statement
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Understanding modern European and Latin American literature
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xvi, 233 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0872498581
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: 9780872498587
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-226) and index.
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| Contents
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Ch. 1. Introduction: Calvino's Life and Circumstances -- Ch. 2. A Neorealistic Path to Literary Exordium: The Path to the Nest of Spiders -- Ch. 3. Fantastic and Realistic Webs of Prose -- Ch. 4. Our Ancestors: A Viscount, a Baron, and a Knight -- Ch. 5. The Speculating Intellectual at the Crossroads: Four Novellas -- Ch. 6. Calvino's Co[s]mic Mosaic -- Ch. 7. An Intellectually Playful Artifice: t zero -- Ch. 8. The Combinatorial Play of Narrative Possibilities: The Castle of Crossed Destinies; Invisible Cities -- Ch. 9. Calvino's Ultimate Hypernovel: If on a winter's night. . . -- Ch. 10. Posthumously: Under the Jaguar Sun; La Strada di San Giovanni -- Ch. 11. Conclusion: The Unredeeming Author: Mr. Palomar.
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Calvino, Italo-- Criticism and interpretation.
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PQ4809.A45Z89 1993
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