Italo Calvino

Last update: 23 Nov 2002 19:24
First version: Before 13 March 1995

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Recommended, by Calvino:
• The Castle of Crossed Destinies
• Cosmicomics
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveller [Review by my brother]
• Invisible Cities
• Mr. Palomar
• The Path to the Nest of Spiders
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium
• The Watcher and Other Stories

Recommended, about Calvino [mostly now (Feb. 2026) lost to link-rot, but preserved in case I ever have a space quarter-hour with the Internet Archive]:
• A good site dedicated to Calvino
• Bruce Sterling, Invisible Cities
• Gore Vidal [Both are in Vidal's essay collection United States; thanks to Peter Lindberg for the links]
  • "Calvino's Novels"
  • "Calvino's Death"

To read:
• Adam, one afternoon and other stories
• The Baron in the Trees
• The Cloven Viscount and the Nonexistant Knight
• Difficult Loves
• Italian Folktales
• Marcovaldo, or, The Seasons in the City
• Numbers in the Dark
• The Road to San Giovanni
• Tau Zero
• Under the Jaguar Sun
• The Uses of Literature
• Why Read the Classics?