![]() His father Mario was an agronomist who had spent a number of years in tropical countries, mostly in Latin America. Italo Calvino was born on Octoin Santiago de Las Vegas, a suburb of Havana. What follows-these three selections and a transcript of Calvino’s thoughts before being interviewed-is a collage, an oblique portrait. Still later, The Paris Review purchased transcripts of a videotaped interview with Calvino (produced and directed by Damien Pettigrew and Gaspard Di Caro) and a memoir by Pietro Citati, the Italian critic. It was never completed, though Weaver later rewrote his introduction as a remembrance. Two years before, The Paris Review had commissioned a Writers at Work interview with Calvino to be conducted by William Weaver, his longtime English translator. ![]() He took fiction into new places where it had never been before, and back into the fabulous and ancient sources of narrative.” At that time Calvino was the preeminent Italian writer, the influence of his fantastic novels and stories reaching far beyond the Mediterranean. Upon hearing of Italo Calvino’s death in September of 1985, John Updike commented, “Calvino was a genial as well as brilliant writer. ![]() ![]() Interviewed by William Weaver & Damien Pettigrew Issue 124, Fall 1992 ![]()
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