Publisher's Synopsis
This autobiography of the Italian writer, Italo Calvino, is separated into a book of five memories: the first, "The Road to San Giovanni", revolves around Calvino's father, the house and town where he grew up; the second explore his childhood experience of film, notably the figure of Clark Gable; the third, his experience of war (he was in the Italian Resistance); the fourth, houses, particularly the role of the kitchen in domestic life; and the fifth, "From the opaque" - a series of philosophical thoughts about the "shape of the world";Italo Calvino is the author of "Invisible Cities", "If On a Winter's Night A Traveller", "Marcovaldo", "Mr Palomar", "Under the Jaguar Sun" and "Six Memos for the Next Millenium".
