CONSTANCE MARKEY

This book explores how Italo Calvino gradually grew into a master of postmodernism. Italo Calvino; the man, the myth, the legend was born in Cuba in 1923 to Italian parents. Before he turned one his family moved back to Italy just in time to reluctantly be part of Mussolini’s regime.

Throughout this book, Constance Markey shows Calvino’s influences and ideas. The major movement that he was part of emulated the works of certain American writers of the early 20th century. Mark Twain, William Faulkner, William Saroyan, Ernest Hemingway; each of them influences.

All in all the book was interesting. Off the top of my head, I still don’t know what postmodernism is, but the book did an admirable job of demonstrating how Calvino developed his craft.… (meer)