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Article: Italo Calvino's autobiographical notes collected to good effect.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 15, 2003
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Byline: Rex Roberts, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
As his wife notes in her preface to "Hermit in Paris," a collection of 14 autobiographical pieces by the late Italo Calvino, the volume will be of most interest to the author's fans. The memoirs, reflections and interviews assembled here for the first time in English are reprints from Italian editions, with the exception of "American Diary 1959-1960," never before published, and the title essay, which appeared as a limited edition in Switzerland. Fortunately, these two writings are the best in the book, although Calvino's journal of his six-month tour of the United States, courtesy of the Ford Foundation, is ...