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    Into the War
    Into the War
    Into the War
    Audiobook2 hours

    Into the War

    Written by Italo Calvino

    Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini

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    "This book deals both with a transition from adolescence into youth and with a move from peace to war: as for very many other people, for the protagonist of this book 'entry into life' and 'entry into war' coincide." - from the Author's Note These three stories, set during the summer of 1940, draw on Italo Calvino's memories of his own adolescence during the Second World War, too young to be forced to fight in Mussolini's army but old enough to be conscripted into the Italian youth brigades. The callow narrator of these tales observes the mounting unease of a city girding itself for war, the looting of an occupied French town, and nighttime revels during a blackout. Appearing here in its first English translation, Into the War is one of Calvino's only works of autobiographical fiction. It offers both a glimpse of this writer's extraordinary life and a distilled dram of his wry, ingenious literary voice.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRecorded Books, Inc.
    Release dateFeb 15, 2018
    ISBN9781501963674
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    Italo Calvino

    Italo Calvino nació en 1923 en Santiago de las Vegas (Cuba). A los dos años la familia regresó a Italia para instalarse en San Remo (Liguria). Publicó su primera novela animado por Cesare Pavese, quien le introdujo en la prestigiosa editorial Einaudi. Allí desempeñaría una importante labor como editor. De 1967 a 1980 vivió en París. Murió en 1985 en Siena, cerca de su casa de vacaciones, mientras escribía Seis propuestas para el próximo milenio. Con la lúcida mirada que le convirtió en uno de los escritores más destacados del siglo XX, Calvino indaga en el presente a través de sus propias experiencias en la Resistencia, en la posguerra o desde una observación incisiva del mundo contemporáneo; trata el pasado como una genealogía fabulada del hombre actual y convierte en espacios narrativos la literatura, la ciencia y la utopía.

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    • 5/5
      A collection of three atypically autobiographical short stories by Italo Cavino about a young man growing up in a country gradually going to war. While these stories are mainly taken as a tale of an adolescent evolving into manhood as his surroundings shift from peace to war, I personally felt that much of this collection is meant to reflect the immaturity or juvenile component of war that defies morality or logic, and how dedicating one's self to wartime activities can potentially stunt emotional/intellectual growth. Just my interpretation.