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The Road to San Giovanni by Tim Parks, Italo Calvino

willowwindbooks's review against another edition

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slow-paced

3.0

hwarium's review against another edition

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5.0

Read most of it on an easy Sunday, from a cafe to a park to the metro and home again.

lauraschl's review against another edition

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4.0

Calvino delightfully presents what seem like rough memory sketches. The hints he leaves about drafts left in the trash, though suggest that his essays went through many iterations. Calvino captures the impressionistic, spiral, and tangential qualities of memories and our reflective thoughts of them. The chapter "A Cinema-Goer's Autobiography" nicely complements "Cinema Paradiso".

jamiereadthis's review

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I have missed Calvino.

lnatal's review

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3.0

CONTENTS:
La strada di San Giovanni, 1962
Autobiografia di uno spettatore, 1974
Ricordo di una battaglia, 1974
La pueblo agree, 1977
Dall'opaco, 1971


4* Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
4* Il cavaliere inesistente
4* Il visconte dimezzato
3* The Road to San Giovanni
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