Further Reading
- Adler, Sara Maria, Calvino: The Writer as Fablemaker, Potomac: Jose Porrúa Turanzas, 1979, 171 p. (Traces the evolution of Calvino's fiction from several different perspectives.)
- Cannon, JoAnn, Italo Calvino: Writer and Critic, Ravenna, Italy: Longo Editore, 1981, 115 p. (Collects Cannon's numerous journal essays on Calvino's individual works and the various phases of his career.)
- Carter, Albert Howard, III, Italo Calvino: Metamorphoses of Fantasy, Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI Research Press, 1987, 182 p. (Explores the many implications suggested in Calvino's fantasy tales, concentrating on the author's penchant for dramatizing metaphysical problems.)
- Hume, Kathryn, Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992, 212 p. (Traces Calvino's thematic development, particularly his use of cosmological thought.)
- Olken, I. T., With Pleated Eye and Garnet Wing: Symmetries of Italo Calvino, Ann Arbor, Mich.: The University of Michigan Press, 1984, 157 p. (Extensive study of recurring patterns, or “symmetries,” that inform Calvino's narratives.)
- Ricci, Franco, Difficult Games: A Reading of I racconti by Italo Calvino, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1990, 131 p. (Book-length analysis of Calvino's collection of short stories.)
- Weiss, Beno, Understanding Italo Calvino, Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1993, 233 p. (Critical and biographical study of Calvino.)
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