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I was born in America Author: [Italy] Italo Calvino Yilin Press
I was born in America Author: [Italy] Italo Calvino Yilin Press
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📖"I was born in Sanremo... I was born both in Sanremo and in America."
📖All 101 interviews are collected, spanning four decades, and the book is nearly 800 pages long.
📖Interviews with Calvino from 1951 to 1985, simplified Chinese version published for the first time!
🔖A "Calvino Encyclopedia" | A multifaceted autobiography like a rotating prism
🔖The most precious collection of Calvino's autobiographical works | A complete puzzle of Calvino's narrative art and aesthetic thought
🌎 Reveal interesting stories about his works——
Why do you write?
If you could do it again, which book would you not write?
Which character in a novel would you most like to be?
🌎 Analyze the situation and destiny of literature——
How would you define your place in contemporary Italian literature?
How important are books to young people?
What aspects of contemporary American literature are most meaningful?
🌎 Thinking about the future of cities, the universe, and humanity——
Can you imagine the city of the future?
Is fantasy part of reality?
What would you say to a world-weary person to save his life?
【Content Introduction】
Calvino was a writer who was reluctant to talk about himself, but he gave more than two hundred interviews in his lifetime.
Born in America is a collection of interviews with Calvino from 1951 to 1985, with 101 interviews spanning four decades. This is the most precious collection of Calvino's autobiography: it not only reveals interesting stories about his works, but also analyzes the situation and fate of Italian and foreign literature, as well as thoughts on the city, the universe and the future of mankind... This is the story of how Calvino became a writer, a multifaceted autobiography like a rotating prism, and a "puzzle book" for understanding Calvino's narrative art and aesthetic thoughts.
【Celebrity Recommendation】
Borges, Márquez and Calvino all dream perfect dreams for us. Among the three, Calvino's is the warmest and brightest.
—John Updike
Calvino's imagination is like a delicate balance of the universe, placed between Voltaire and Leibniz.
——Eco
Calvino taught me that originality is as important as history itself.
——Orhan Pamuk
When the world ends, I can’t think of a better writer to keep company with than Calvino.
-- Rushdie
Calvino is undoubtedly one of the most gifted Italian narrative writers, and The Last Came the Raven is written by such a young man. The book contains both pure and magical stories and stories of guerrillas, where even war becomes the theme of fairy tales, vivid and distant, just like all fairy tales. This is also the talent of young Calvino and what makes him so formidable.
--Gianno Pombaroni
For a while I seemed to understand, but then I realized I understood nothing, because his mind is too complicated. Calvino's book is worth reading over and over again.
——Mo Yan
I can't force you to like every one of his books, but I think you have to like his idea: the art of fiction has infinite possibilities... I haven't explored the infinity yet, any more than Calvino.
——Wang Xiaobo
Critics like to compare Calvino with Nabokov and Borges, but in fact, Calvino's influence is greater and more lasting. ... Calvino's death means the end of pure literature, at least for Western literature.
——Chen Xiaoming
About the Author
Regarding his life, Calvino wrote: "I am still one of those people like Croce who believes that an author is only valuable for his works, so I do not provide biographical information. I will tell you what you want to know. But I will never tell you the truth."
Born in Cuba on October 15, 1923, he died suddenly in a seaside villa on September 19, 1985, and missed the Nobel Prize in Literature that year.
Both of his parents were tropical botanists. "In my family, only scientific research was respected. I was the black sheep, the only one in the family who was involved in literature."
His youth was filled with books, comics, and movies. He dreamed of becoming a playwright, but after graduating from high school he entered the agronomy department of university and later graduated from the Faculty of Arts.
In 1947, he published The Path to the Spider's Nest, and since then he has been committed to exploring the infinite possibilities of the art of novel narration.
He lived in seclusion in Paris for 15 years and had close contacts with Levi-Strauss, Roland Barthes, Queneau and others.
He fell ill while preparing for a lecture at Harvard in the summer of 1985. The surgeon said he had never seen a brain structure as complex and exquisite as Calvino's.
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