Il guidatore notturno italo calvino biography

Italo Calvino is an Italian journalist and novelist known as one of the greatest Italian fiction authors of the 20th century. Calvino's parents were both well-respected botanists. When Calvino was two, his parents moved the family back to Sanremo, Italy. Calvino attended school in Sanremo and began studying at the University of Turin at age Calvino studied in an agriculture program, following in his parents' footsteps, but secretly was interested in literature, especially anti-Fascist literature.

However, in , due to the German occupation of Italy, Calvino was forced to halt his studies and either join the military service or go into hiding. He chose to go into hiding for a few months, until his mother convinced Italo and his brother Floriano to join the Italian Resistance. Calvino joined a Communist group called the Garibaldi Brigades , and lived and fought in the Maritime Alps until the end of the war in Calvino returned to Turin in and began openly studying literature.

He joined the Communist Party; while he completed his degree, he wrote and edited for Communist and left-wing magazines.

Italo Calvino has long been recognized as one of the most prominent writers of the twentieth century.

Calvino graduated in and published his first novel, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno The Path to the Nest of Spiders , in the same year. The novel centered on his experiences in World War II. His short stories were well-regarded, while the novels were less successful. Calvino's life began to shift in the late 's. He had an affair from to with an older Italian actress named Elsa De Giorgi.

Calvino's literary works turned from realism and stories of war to satire and fantasy. The author visited the United States in and was particularly taken by New York.