The first collection in English – six hundred and fifty letters – written between World War Two and the end of Calvino’s life in 1985; correspondents include Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Alberto Moravia, Gore Vidal, Natalia Ginzburg, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Luciano Berio; insights about Calvino’s writing, about Italian, American, English and French literature, and about culture and politics – post-fascist Italy, his resignation from the Italian Communist Party in 1957, the events of May 1968 in Paris, Brazilian prisons, the war in Vietnam, his visit to the USA in 1959, trip to his birthplace in Cuba and meeting Che Guevara; selected and introduced by Michael Wood, translated by Martin McLaughlin.
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