Difficult Games: A Reading of I Racconti by Italo Calvino

by Franco Ricci

Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ricci points...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554585759
• ISBN13: 9781554585755
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 143 Pages