Princeton’s new selection of over 600 of Italo Calvino’s letters stretches from the end of the Second World War to the author’s death in 1985 and contains, among many other jewels, his letter of resignation from the Italian Communist Party, eyewitness reports of the Parisévènements of 1968, and an account of a meeting with Che Guevara. John Banville has written of them ‘Calvino liked to present an inscrutable face to the world, but this literally marvelous collection of letters shows him to have been gregarious, puckish, funny, combative, and, above all, wonderful company, and opens a new and fascinating perspective on one of the master writers of the twentieth century’. Michael Wood, who selected and introduced the letters, will be in conversation with Martin McLaughlin, who translated them.
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