A tribute to Calvino, featuring comments by Umberto Eco, Carlos Fuentes, and Salman Rushdie, and readings of his work. Audio Special: Celebrating Italo Calvino.Todd Comer's Outside the Town of Malbork.A lovely insight from Jerome Bruner that relates to Calvino.Calvino's great translator offers some thoughts on the master. Vidal on Calvino's Death - from The New York Review of Books, 1985.Gore Vidal on Calvino's Novels - from The New York Review of Books, 1974.Calvino's Late Novels as Examples of Hypertext, a wonderful essay by Mikhail Viesel (in French)."The Parallels!" Italo Calvino and Jorge Luis Borges, by John Barth.Italo Calvino: Cybernetics and Ghosts, by David C.Italo Calvino: Hermit in Paris, by Michael Mewshaw.Calvino's Reality: Designer's Utopia, an elegant essay focusing on Six Memos.Calvino and the Oulipo: An Italian Ghost in the Combinatory Machine? - by Anna Botta for MLN.Calvino and the Value of Literature, by Lucia Re.Palomar, the Triviality of Modernity, and the Doctrine of the Void, by Stefano Franchi.A Path to the Nest of Translation - Giulia Guarnieri discusses her interviews with Italo Calvino's translator as well as the disagreements Calvino had with Pier Paolo Pasolini about the future evolution of the Italian language.Selections in Spanish from Universidad de Chile.Īccess to some of the links below are restricted to educational institutions affiliated with Johns Hopkins or the University of Virginia. Passages from Calvino's books and essays. Final exchange between Marco and the Khan.Marco and the Khan on stones and arches.On swimming against the stream of time.On keeping convictions in the fluid state.