Italo Calvino: Hermit in Paris (Penguin Modern Classics) [2011] paperback ZRACE garden-loving British diplomat

garden-loving British diplomat

" Jennifer Niven

Will laid down his guns on the battlefield and declared himself a conscientious objector

It was all a lie

they change over time

Italo Calvino: Hermit in Paris (Penguin Modern Classics) [2011] paperback ZRACE garden-loving British diplomatItalo Calvino once said that he preferred to give false details about his biography since he felt that even the genuine data of a writer's life shed no light on the creative work. But this volume of posthumously collected personal writings is the closest we will ever come to the autobiography of this most private of writers. The pieces collected here range from the early 1950s to his last interview, completed just before his sudden death in 1985.