Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood

Claudia Nocentini

Italian Perspectives 6

Legenda

30 November 2000  •  106pp

ISBN: 978-1-902653-23-5 (paperback, forthcoming)

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Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a constant visual source for Calvino's fiction. In its recognizable pattern of seacityhills, it appears in sixteen works written over a period of thirty two years. This recurring theme provides both a link between some very different works and an insight into the autobiographical dimension of an author whose attitude to privacy and his past is protective but detached. Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood is an analysis of the criteria of representative (and of representational distortion) of a descriptive motif.

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Nocentini, Claudia, Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood, Italian Perspectives, 6 (Legenda, 2000)

First footnote reference: 35 Claudia Nocentini, Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood, Italian Perspectives, 6 (Legenda, 2000), p. 21.

Subsequent footnote reference: 37 Nocentini, p. 47.

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Nocentini, Claudia. 2000. Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood, Italian Perspectives, 6 (Legenda)

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