Never before published in English, these essayistic writings enlarge our understanding of one of the twentieth centrury's most beloved authors.
In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--we learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artis...
Never before published in English, these essayistic writings enlarge our understanding of one of the twentieth centrury's most beloved authors.
In evocations of Italo Calvino's tumultuous teenage years--his life during Mussolini's rule, at the time of the liberation, and during the Cold War--we learn the story of the author's generation as it confronted moral, civil, and artistic dilemmas. In writings from the extended periods during which Calvino lived alone in Paris and New York, we witness his struggle to find "the right distance between being involved and being detached." In "American Diary" he recounts his peregrinations throughout the United States in 1959 and 1960: from New York to Texas, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Savannah, and Charleston. He describes his bafflement with heretofore unimaginable technology, his fascination with the Beats, his horror at the squalor of the suburbs, the inspiration he derived from Martin Luther King, Jr.'s words and actions, his impressions of myriad aspects of American culture.
Filled with the author's characteristic insight, intelligence, and brio, Hermit in Paris will take its place alongside Italo Calvino's seminal works.
Perhaps politics remain tied in my experience to that extreme situation: a sense of inflexible necessity and the search for the different and the multiple in a rigid world. So I conclude by saying: if I have been (though very much in my own way) a Stalinist, this was not by chance. There are elements that are characterize that epoch, which are part of me: ［I don't believe in anything that is easy, quick, spontaneous, improvised, rough and ready. I believe in the strength of what is slow, calm, obstinate, devoid of fanaticisms and enthusiasms. I do not believe in any liberation either individual or collective that can be obtained without the cost of self-discipline, of self-construction, of effort.］ If this way of thinking seems to some people Stalinist, well all right, I will have no diffi... (查看原文)
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presenting himself honestly