Path to the Nest of Spiders
by:
Italo Calvino (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780880011891 (0880011890)
Publish date: April 4th 1976
Publisher: Ecco Press
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
War,
World War II,
Italian Literature
bookshelves: spring-2014, iphone-library, ipad, e-book, wwii, summer-2014, italy, tbr-busting-2014 Read from April 21 to July 05, 2014 Description: Italo Calvino was only twenty-three when he first published this bold and imaginative novel. It tells the story of Pin, a cobbler's apprentice in a ...
Blog Stories Review: http://storiesbooksandmovies.blogspot.it/2014/02/il-sentiero-dei-nidi-di-ragno-italo.html#moreIl sentiero di nidi di ragno è stato il romanzo che ha fatto conoscere al grande pubblico Italo Calvino.La vicenda narrata ha luogo durante la seconda guerra mondiale in Italia. Il prot...
Pin is an orphaned boy being raised by his prostitute sister. He bums cigarettes off the German soldier who frequents his sister's bed and drinks off the men at the local tavern. He mocks and sings for adults, with whom he is more at ease than with other kids. One day the local resistance committee ...
La letteratura italiana non è che mi faccia impazzire e di partigiani e resistenza ormai se ne è parlato anche troppo, ma Calvino questo libro lo scrive nel dopoguerra, quando l'esperienza è ancora scottante.Tre stelle perché il libro, nonostante i pronostici, si è lasciato leggere in poco tempo. Tr...
I am endebted to the editors of World Literature Today for their recent article on the literature of Liguria that led me to this absolute gem. The Path to the Nest of Spiders was an exciting find for several reasons: It is completely different from anything Calvino ever wrote after (it was his firs...
Log in with Facebook 
