Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood
Claudia Nocentini
Click cover to enlarge | Legenda 30 November 2000 • 106pp ISBN: 978-1-902653-23-5 (paperback, forthcoming) 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. Bibliography entry: 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. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.) Bibliography entry: Nocentini, Claudia. 2000. Italo Calvino and the Landscape of Childhood, Italian Perspectives, 6 (Legenda) Example citation: ‘A quotation occurring on page 21 of this work’ (Nocentini 2000: 21). Example footnote reference: 35 Nocentini 2000: 21. (To see how these citations were worked out, follow this link.)
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