Reviews
Calvino's Novels, Fantastic Metropolis: Invisible Cities, Numbers in the Dark and Other Stories
Works
How Much Shall We Bet?, Italo Calvino Excerpt, Swarthmore College: Invisible Cities, Swarthmore: The Soft Moon
Calvino's Reality: Designer's Utopia
Academic paper relating Calvino's works to the visual arts and graphic design.
Great Science-Fiction & Fantasy Works: Italo C
Critical discussion and excerpts from the fantasy author's works.
Guardian Unlimited: Italo Calvino
Five critical articles and a biographical sketch of the metafictional author.
In Calvino Veritas: The Critical Calvino Page
Online collection of essays on the author's allegorical fantasies.
Italo Calvino
Literary biography, selected bibliography and links to other writers of like-mind.
Italo Calvino
Featuring excerpts of the author's work in Italian and English, text of his autobiographical essay, reviews, articles, and links.
Italo Calvino as Author/Game-master
Essay on the metafictive elements of "If on a winter's night a traveler" from a literary theory perspective.
Italo Calvino as Urbanologist
Essay on "Invisible Cities," the Oulipo movement, and the sociology of writing.
Outside the town of Malbork
Biography of the Italian fantasist and discussion of the importance of his works. Bibliography, quotes, book reviews, and links.
The Italo Calvino Home Page
Includes bibliographical and biographical information, as well as a selection of links related to Calvino and his works.