Italo Calvino’s fiction: from Neorealism to Postmodernism



The course is meant to trace the evolution of Calvino’s writing and theoretical and critical thought through the analysis of four among his main novels considered on the background of the literary and cultural Italian landscape in the second half of the Twentieth century.



Required Texts: Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (1947), Milano, Mondadori, 2007; La nuvola di smog (1958), Milano, Mondadori (“Oscar”), 2004. Il cavaliere inesistente (1959) in I nostri antenati, Milano, Mondadori (“Oscar”), 2004. Il castello dei destini incrociati (1973), Milano, Mondadori, 2002.



Critical Bibliography: Giorgio Bertone, Italo Calvino. Il castello della scrittura, Torino, Einaudi, 1994.

Schedule
11:00am-11:50am on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday (Jul 6, 2020 to Aug 14, 2020)
Location
Main
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