{"product_id":"italo-calvino-and-the-compass-of-literature-1","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\n\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\n","brand":"By Eugenio Bolongaro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575854104758,"sku":"9781442676343","price":66.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442676343_76a0b0ad-9d7b-46d9-99e0-043e269ff972.jpg?v=1727467036","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/italo-calvino-and-the-compass-of-literature-1","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}