Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979). His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
Series
Books
Collection of Sand
1984
The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
2020
L'Uccel Bel-Verde. LA Foresta-Radice-Labirinto
1991
t zero
1967
The Written World and the Unwritten World
2023
The Watcher and Other Stories
1963
La memoria del mondo
e altre storie cosmicomiche
1967
I nostri antenati
Il visconte dimezzato / Il barone rampante / Il cavaliere inesistente
1960
Adam, One Afternoon
1949
The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount
1959
El gran libro de los gatos
Los mejores relatos, ensayos y poemas de la literatura felina universal
2019
La speculazione edilizia
1957
Invisible Cities
1972
I libri degli altri
1991
Magical Realist Fiction
An Anthology
1984
La giornata d'uno scrutatore
1963
Under the Jaguar Sun
1986
Why Read the Classics?
1991
Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
1993
I RACCONTI
1958
If on a Winters Night a Traveler / Invisible Cities / The Baron in the Trees
1979
Mr.Palomar
1983
The Complete Cosmicomics
1997
The Distance of the Moon
1965
Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
1947
The Road to San Giovanni
1990
Hermit in Paris
Autobiographical Writings
1994
Fantastic Tales
Visionary and Everyday
1983
Difficult Loves & Marcovaldo
1982
Amy Peppercorn
2006
Into The War
1954
Difficult Loves
1958
Italo Calvino
Letters, 1941-1985 - Updated Edition
2010
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
1973
The Literature Machine
Essays
1980
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
1979
The Written World And The Unwritten World
Essays
2023
Un ottimista in America
2014
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
1988
Italo Calvino en México
2006
The Baron in the Trees
1957
Spells of Enchantment
The Wondrous Fairy Tales of Western Culture
1991
Il cavaliere inesistente
1959
Argentine Ants
1952
The Queen's Necklace
2011
Fiabe Italiane Volume Secondo ITALIAN ONLY Vol 2 Only
1956
Ten Italian Folktales
1980
Italian Tales. Volume 1
1971
Il visconte dimezzato
1952
Italian Folktales
1956
Cosmicomics
1965
Marcovaldo
1963
