This volume, added to the “Enciclopedie” series, features Italo Calvino, the supreme encyclopaedic writer, with the ability to range from literature to art, philosophy, cinema, science, imagination, politics, publishing, photography and landscape.
The book, edited by Marco Belpoliti, brings together 146 entries by 56 authors and draws a veritable map to enter Calvino’s world, his books well as the themes, ideas and events of his life as a writer and intellectual.
The individual entries are texts and short essays, not arranged in alphabetical order, but grouped thematically, which provide an extensive portrait within the work of the Ligurian writer. No entry, however, is a monad, but creates a network of references and echoes, a mirror of the complexity and variety of Calvino’s achievement. This constellation, depicted by the map at the beginning of the volume, suggests an original critical approach to the writer.
Calvino A-Z is part of the official programme of the celebrations of the centenary of his birth, which includes exhibitions at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome (Favoloso Calvino. Il mondo come opera d’arte. Carpaccio, de Chirico, Gnoli, Melotti e gli altri, 13 October 2023-4 February 2024) and at the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa (Calvino Cantafavole, 15 October 2023-7 April 2024). On this occasion, the publisher will also present a valuable text, now unobtainable: Idem by Giulio Paolini, published in the “Einaudi Letteratura” series in April 1975, for which Italo Calvino wrote the introduction, here in a fuller and previously unpublished version.
€ 45,00