Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities seems simple in its narrative construction, built on the use of short sections comprised of concise chapters that may better be understood as the tales the explorer Marco Polo tells the emperor Kublai Khan....

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino is not a traditional novel with a specific genre, plot, and style of rhetoric. Instead, it is filled with unique literary techniques such as a frame story encompassing a collection of short stories within each...

So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page. You prepare to recognize the unmistakable tone of the author. No. You don’t recognize it at all. But now that you think about it, who ever said this author had an unmistakable...

In Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, we see how Calvino attempts to compare the reading of a novel to a man pursuing a woman. In this text, the reader takes on the role of a male protagonist attempting to read a book. Along the...

The traditional structure and approach to literature is challenged in If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. For this idiosyncratic narrative, the main character is referred to as the reader, and the novel is told in the second...

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller (hereafter Winter’s Night), authored by Italo Calvino, has often been critically analyzed by scholars for its unique narrative style and the role it has played in establishing metafiction as a definitive genre at...

Italo Calvino’s Under the Jaguar Sun is based almost entirely on a foundation of three essential themes, all of which relate in some way to the sensation of taste. While Calvino creates many antitheses, the dissonances actually turn into wonderful...

In Calvino’s masterful collection of short stories, Marcovaldo, he explores the creation of urban restrictions and the freedom which is created by nature. In “the city lost in snow”, Calvino explores the restrictions which are posed by cities and...

During the 1940s in the midst of World War Two, the Nazi regime occupied much of Italy as the dictator Benito Mussolini allied with Germany; however, in 1943, the Italian resistance assassinated Mussolini marking the collapse of his fascist...