Dennis Duncan

Publisher, translator, novelist, critic and polyglot: the many lives of Italo Calvino

The learning on display in this latest Collected Non-Fiction is as astonishing as ever – though ‘B-sides and Rarities’ might describe the more marginal pieces

Italo Calvino in 1984. [Getty Images] 
issue 18 February 2023
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  • The Written World and the Unwritten World: Collected Non-Fiction

    Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein

    Penguin, pp. 384, £10

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