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The Road to San Giovanni

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141189710

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 90g

  • RRP: £9.99

The Road to San Giovanni

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he would, if asked, consider the world. These reflections on the nature of memory itself are engaging, witty, and lit through with Calvino's alchemical brilliance.

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780141189710

  • Length: 112  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 6mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 90g

  • RRP: £9.99

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About the Author

Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.

Italo Calvino

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