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A rich collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of Calvino's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature. An extraordinary collection of essays, forewords, articles, and interviews, The Written World and the Unwritten World displays the remarkable intelligence and razor-sharp wit of prolific Italian writer Italo Calvino as he explores the meaning of literature in a rapidly changing world. From classics to contemporary literature, from tradition to the avant-garde, Calvino masterfully explores reading, writing, and translating through careful and illuminating discussion of the works of Bakhtin, Brecht, Cort�zar, Thomas Mann, Octavio Paz, Georges Perec, Salman Rushdie, Gore Vidal, and more. Drawn from Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto (2002), Sulla fiaba (1988), and other uncollected essays, this volume of previously untranslated work--now rendered in English by acclaimed translator Ann Goldstein--is a major statement in literary criticism.

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"""Ballerini brings his fine voice, masterful tempo, and impeccable Italian to this audiobook. His voice, delivery, and simpatico sensibilities for the late Italo Calvino give this collection a sense of a celebration of the novelist, essayist, and folklorist's reviews, essays, and other literary offerings...Ballerini gets Calvino's rhythms and the workings of his fascinating mind. He appreciates the author's enthusiasm for folk tales and for Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Cervantes. Also, he captures the critical frame of mind in his evaluations of twentieth-century writers and thinkers."" -- ""AudioFile"""

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"ITALO CALVINO (1923-1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His works have been translated into dozens of languages. Ann Goldstein, the editor of The Complete Works of Primo Levi and the award-winning translator of Elena Ferrante's novels, is a former editor at the New Yorker. Edoardo Ballerini is a two time winner of the Best Male Narrator Audie Award from the Audiobook Publishers Association, and was named a ""Golden Voice"" by AudioFile. The New York Times has called him ""a master in his field."""

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