Italo Calvino: Comprehensive Research And Study Guide

Bloom, Harold (editor)

ISBN 10: 0791068242 / ISBN 13: 9780791068243

Published by Chelsea House Publishers, Broomall, PA, 2002

About this Item

Part of the Bloom's Major Short Story Writers Series, book is a clean tight unmarked copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Italo Calvino: Comprehensive Research And Study Guide
• Publisher: Chelsea House Publishers, Broomall, PA
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791068242
• ISBN 13: 9780791068243
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Perma-Bound
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bloom's Literary Criticism Studies
  • International & World Literature Studies

About this title

Synopsis

Provides biographical information along with plot summaries, lists of characters, and critical views of the author's most famous short stories.

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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