- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446419670
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
Our Ancestors
- Published: 1 February 2011
- ISBN: 9781446419670
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 400
Italo Calvino has advanced far beyond his American and English contemporaries, as they continue to look for the place where the spiders make their nests, Calvino has not only found that special place but learnt how himself to make fantastic webs of prose to which all things adhere
Gore Vidal
Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends
Salman Rushdie
The writing is just breathtaking and the final story, 'The Non-Existent Knight', still sends a shiver up my spine
Jilly Cooper
Calvino's genius lies not so much in this tantalising conceit, but the brilliance and ingenuity with which he pulls it off...A dazzling display of literary fireworks
Independent
Calvino's refusal to be glum set him apart from other modernists. His marvellous Fifties trilogy, Our Ancestors, brought us allegorical fables about a cloven viscount, a non-existent knight and a baron who swings from the trees
Guardian
One of the greatest tale-spinners of modern times
The Times
He will continue to glitter, this strange, lonely prospector in the universe of words, well into the next millennium and after, a master in the empire of the imagination
Independent
A writer of dizzying ambition and variety, each of his stories is a fresh adventure into the possibilities of fiction
Guardian
Italo Calvino has advanced far beyond his American and English contemporaries, as they continue to look for the place where the spiders make their nests, Calvino has not only found that special place but learnt how himself to make fantastic webs of prose to which all things adhere
Gore Vidal
Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns, while the world ends
Salman Rushdie
The writing is just breathtaking and the final story, 'The Non-Existent Knight', still sends a shiver up my spine
Jilly Cooper
Calvino's genius lies not so much in this tantalising conceit, but the brilliance and ingenuity with which he pulls it off...A dazzling display of literary fireworks
Independent
Calvino's refusal to be glum set him apart from other modernists. His marvellous Fifties trilogy, Our Ancestors, brought us allegorical fables about a cloven viscount, a non-existent knight and a baron who swings from the trees
Guardian