Hermit in Paris (23 page)
ITALO CALVINO
HERMIT IN PARIS
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He was a member of the partisan movement during the German occupation of northern Italy in World War II. The novel that resulted from that experience, published in English as
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
, won widespread acclaim. His other works of fiction include
The Baron in the Trees
,
The
Castle of Crossed Destinies
,
Cosmicomics
,
Difficult Loves
,
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
,
Invisible Cities
,
Marcovaldo
,
Mr. Palomar
,
The
Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount
,
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,
Under the Jaguar
Sun
,
The Watcher and Other Stories
, and
Numbers in the Dark
. His works of nonfiction include
The Road to San Giovanni
and
Six
Memos for the Next Millennium.
ALSO BY ITALO CALVINO
The Baron in the Trees
The Castle of Crossed Destinies
Cosmicomics
Difficult Loves
Fantastic Tales
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Invisible Cities
Italian Folktales
Marcovaldo
Mr. Palomar
The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount
Numbers in the Dark
The Path to the Nest of Spiders
The Road to San Giovanni
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
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Under the Jaguar Sun
The Uses of Literature
The Watcher and Other Stories
FIRST VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL EDITION, AUGUST 2004
Copyright © 2003 by the Estate of Italo Calvino
Translation copyright © 2003 by Jonathan Cape
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the Pantheon edition as follows:
[Eremita a Parigi. English]
Hermit in Paris: autobiographical writings / Italo Calvino; translated from the
Italian by Martin McLaughlin.
p. cm.
1. Calvino, Italo. 2. Calvino, Italo—Homes and haunts—Paris, France.
3. Italy—Intellectual life—20th century. 4. Paris (France)—Intellectual life—
20th century. 5. Authors, Italian—20th century—Biography. I. Title.
PQ4809. A45 Z465 2003
853’914—dc21
2002075965
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