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Difficult Games: A Reading of I Racconti: Available Copies
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Difficult Games: A Reading of I Racconti by Italo Calvino by Ricci, Franco
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ISBN: 9780889209909
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press (1990)
Seller: Sweet Pea Supply Co. (Halcottsville, NY, U.S.A.)
Used Book—Condition: Very Good
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Very Good Hard Cover with VG Dust Jacket showing some yellowing at the edges. Would be rated As New except for mild staining on top edge of pages, other sides and pages are pristine. Examining Calvino's literary experiments as a young artist in search of his narrative voice, Ricci explores the psychological and existential motivations intrinsically linked to the writer's need for textual and systemic patterning. I racconti contains some of Calvino's least-read works, yet these early stories address issues, present scenarios and generate a growing variation of themes that form the heart of Calvino's narrative discourse. Ricci points out that melancholy permeates Calvino's works;even at his most playful. He suggests that if Calvino's highest merit was his sense of wonder and his urge to transform and defeat obscurantism with all the joy he could muster, one must remember that his work expressed, often painfully, the limits of human rationalism. I racconti can thus be read as a catalogue of the anxieties of both the young author and postwar Italian society.
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DIFFICULT GAMES: A Reading of I Racconti By Italo Calvino by Ricci, Franco
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Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo ON (1990)
Seller: J. Wyatt Books (Ottawa, ON, Canada)
Used Book—Condition: Near Fine
Book Price: $34.50
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TOTAL Cost: $57.50
131 pages in near fine condition. Pages are crisp and clean. Navy blue cloth with gilded text on the front and spine. Covers are unblemished. White, blue, and yellow dustjacket in near fine condition. Some light scuffs. A crease on the front flap. NF/NF
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DIFFICULT GAMES - a reading of 'I racconti' by ITALO CALVINO by RICCI, FRANCO
Hardcover
ISBN: 9780889209909
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Ontario (1990)
Seller: FESTINA LENTE italiAntiquariaat (Lucca, Italy)
Used Book—Condition: As New
Book Price: $38.12
Shipping: $21.72
TOTAL Cost: $59.84
'I racconti' can be read as a catalogue of the anxieties of both the young author and the postwar Italian society. With notes, bibliography and index. 131 pag. Size: 8vo
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