Italo Calvino (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791059197 ISBN 13: 9780791059197

Publisher: Chelsea House Pub, 2001

Synopsis

Explores the author's literary themes and style through critical essays that explore his pursuit of truth and use of narrative text in such works as "Invisible Cities."

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Gr 9 Up-Though its audience is probably limited, this slim, but enlightening volume will be of great use to readers curious about Calvino and his work. It includes eight extremely well-written essays by the likes of Gore Vidal and Seamus Heaney, arranged in a chronological sequence spanning Calvino's career, along with Bloom's insightful and occasionally beautiful, if somewhat daunting, introduction. There is something mournful, almost elegiac in Bloom's writing that may make it seem incomprehensible to this book's intended audience. However, this is a book for the rare group of intellectually eager readers desperate for a taste of that dark, heady, bitter brew art sometimes makes of life-or, in Bloom's case, that life sometimes makes of art.-Herman Sutter, Saint Agnes Academy, Houston, TX

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Review:

"As Newsweek said: "A publishing venture almost without precedent..."

About this edition

• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0791059197
• ISBN 13: 9780791059197
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Bloom Harold