Into the war / Italo Calvino ; translated by Martin McLaughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calvino, Italo, author.

Contributor:

McLaughlin, M. L. (Martin L.), translator.

Standardized Title:

Entrata in guerra. English

Language:

English

Italian

Genre:

Short stories, Italian.

Bildungsromans.

War stories.

Autobiographical fiction.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 90 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First U.S. Edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2011?]

Summary:

"These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino's memories of his own adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight in Mussolini's army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian youth brigades. The callow narrator of these tales observes the mounting unease of a city girding itself for war, the looting of an occupied French town, and nighttime revels during a blackout. Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War is one of Calvino's only works of autobiographical fiction. It offers both a glimpse of this writer's extraordinary life and a distilled dram of his wry, ingenious literary voice."--from cover, page [4].

Contents:

Into the war

The avanguardisti in Menton

UNPA nights.

Notes:

"First published in Italy as L'entrata in guerra by Einaudi, Turin, 1954"--Title page verso.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780544146389 ;