{"product_id":"italo-calvino-and-the-compass-eugenio-bolongaro-9780802087638","title":"Italo Calvino and the Compass of Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003eLooking at five of Italo Calvino's often neglected early novels: \u003ci\u003eThe Young People of Po\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cloven Viscount\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Baron in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Non-Existent Knight\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Watcher\u003c\/i\u003e, Eugenio Bolongaro argues that these works, written between 1948 and 1963, contain a sustained meditation on the role of the intellectual and on the irreducible ethical and political dimension of literature. This meditation provides an insight into a crucial moment in Calvino's development as a writer, and allows Bolongaro to lay the groundwork for a more 'political' reading of Calvino's later work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eItalo Calvino and the Compass of Literature\u003c\/i\u003e firmly situates Calvino within his historical context - the cultural revival of post-World War II Italy - by relating these early novels to Calvino's political and critical writings which played an important role in the cultural debates of the time. This approach provides a key to understanding Calvino's work in a new light, ably demonstrating that Calvino's full literary significance cannot be understood in isolation from the politics and cultural movements of the period. One of the few book-length English-language works on Calvino's early writings, \u003ci\u003eItalo Calvino and the Compass of Literatur\u003c\/i\u003e will prove to be an indispensable tool to Italianists and literary studies scholars.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eugenio Bolongaro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802087639\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802087638\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/27\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.52h x 6.08w x 0.95d","brand":"Eugenio Bolongaro","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49096733982975,"sku":"9780802087638","price":84.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/italo-calvino-and-the-compass-eugenio-bolongaro-9780802087638","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}