The Road to San Giovanni
Written by Italo Calvino
Narrated by Edoardo Ballerini
3.5/5
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Italo Calvino
ITALO CALVINO (1923–1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century’s greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His works have been translated into dozens of languages.
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Reviews for The Road to San Giovanni
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A beautiful collection of essays from the master fabulist. My favorite was about garbage cans. Covers Fellini through Latin plant names. Worth it.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5The title piece and "From the Opaque" seemed to be the highpoints in this collection of "memory exercises". Both do an admirable job of attempting to recreate not just memories but direct sensory experience and how it was translated into a more subjective world view of simpler, fewer, and less sharply defined objects a younger age. I'm sure it is possible to dig some hard philosophy out of these pieces, but as a casual reader the strongest impression was of an almost transcendental nostalgia.
The other three essays were less interesting to me. The piece on cinema was decent while the war time recollection felt a little too slight and the essay on the Parisian garbage can seemed a bit self-indulgent. Still, I am sure all of these essays have their fans (well, maybe not the second). I haven't read anything else by Calvino, so I don't really know whether it is representative of his work as a whole.