His works of nonfiction include SixMemosfor the Next Millennium and The Uses of Literature, collections of literary essays, and the anthologies Italian Folktales and Fantastical Tales. Palomar, The Nonexistent Knight and the Cloven Viscount, t zero, Under the Jaguar Sun, and The Watcher and Other Stories. His other works of fiction include The Baron in the Trees, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves, If On a Winter s Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, Mr.

The novel that resulted from that experience, published in English as The Path to the Nest of Spiders, won widespread acclaim. He was a member of the partisan movement during the German occupation of northern Italy in World War II. Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy. вЂњAs close as we'll ever get to the intellectual autobiogra phy of a writer whose significance seems likely to last well into that coming millennium he addresses so warmly in these lectures.вЂќ вЂњThese brilliant lectures, or вЂmemos,вЂ™ are at once an intellectual dance and a description of the qualities that make Calvino's fiction so readable and so satisfying.вЂќ вЂњ a last exhortation, an encouragement to would-be creators of literature to digest the rules of survival Calvino has given them.вЂќ вЂњWhile [CalvinoJ's loss is cause for universal mourning, his many booksвЂ¦call anew for celebration.вЂќ вЂњA brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's great est writing.вЂќ

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