Table of Contents
Title Page
Epigraph
Translator’s Note
Preface
Stranger in Turin
The Writer and the City
Questionnaire, 1956 - Italo Calvino’s Replies to a Survey by Il Café
Personal Portrait
American Diary 1959–1960
My Travelling Companions (Young Creative Writers)
New York Diary
Midwest Diary
San Francisco Diary
California Diary
Diary from the South-west
Diary from the South
The Cloven Communist
Political Autobiography of a Young Man
I. A Childhood under Fascism
II. The Generation that Lived through Difficult Times
A Letter in Two Versions
1
2
Objective Biographical Notice
Hermit in Paris
Where I Was on 25th April 1945
Dialect
The Situation in 1978
Was I a Stalinist Too?
The Summer of ’56
The Duce’s Portraits
Behind the Success
I Would Like to be Mercutio …
My City Is New York
Interview with Maria Corti
About the Author
ALSO BY ITALO CALVINO
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