Italo Calvino (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Italo Calvino was known to the Italian reading public as a novelist, but internationally he was often associated with his tales and stories. In the comprehensive and critically acclaimed Fiabe italiane (1956; partially translated as Italian Fables, 1959, and completed as Italian Folktales, 1975), he collected and transcribed tales and fables from the various Italian dialects. Influenced by the Russian Formalist Vladimir Propp’s Historical Roots of Russian Fairy Tales (1946) and by structuralist theory in general, Calvino made...

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