The Road to San Giovanni

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• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $5.50

  This autobiography of the Italian writer, Italo Calvino, is separated into a book of five memories: the first, The Road to San Giovanni , revolves around Calvino's father, the house and town where he grew up; the second explore his childhood experience of film, notably the figure of Clark Gable; the third, his experience of war (he was in the Italian Resistance); the fourth, houses, particularly the role of the kitchen in domestic life; and the fifth, From the opaque - a series of philosophical thoughts about the shape of the world Italo Calvino is the author of Invisible Cities , If On a Winter's Night A Traveller , Marcovaldo , Mr Palomar , Under the Jaguar Sun and Six Memos for the Next Millenium .

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $4.74

  Translated from the Italian by Tim Parks, The Road to San Giovanni is a posthumously published collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literature, ranging from a lyrical portrait of the author's relationship with his father to a perceptive essay on his own youthful obsession with the cinema.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $12.18

  Includes five autobiographical meditations that delves into the author's past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists.