biography
pronunciation:
[kalveenoh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923–85)
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| biography:
| Writer, essayist, and journalist, born in Santiago de las Vegas, N Cuba, of Italian parents. He spent his early years in San Remo, and studied at Turin, where he worked as a publisher. His first novel, Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (1947, The Path to the Nest of Spiders), described resistance against Fascism in a highly naturalistic manner. In later works, such as I nostri antenati (1960, Our Ancestors), he adopted a more condensed style of story-telling, hovering between allegory and pure fantasy, while Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore (1979, If On a Winter's Night a Traveller) tests the limits of experiment in fiction. |
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