Italo Calvino, Il Barone rampante [The Baron in the Trees]

Simona Wright (College of New Jersey)
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Published in 1957, Calvino’s utopian novel

Il Barone rampante

 [

The Baron in the Trees

] is part of a trilogy,

I nostri antenati

 [

Our Ancestors

], that occupied its author from 1952, date of the publication of

TheCloven Viscount

 [

Il visconte dimezzato

], to 1959, when

The Inexistent Knight

 [

Il cavaliere inesistente

] arrived in bookstores. With this ‘heraldic trilogy’ planned by the author himself as a narrative unity, Calvino aimed to reflect on the reality of contemporary society, and particularly on the condition of the individual in the twentieth century. However, as he stated in a “Note” to the 1980 English translation of the work by Archibald Colquhoun and later in

Visibility

, one of the five Norton lectures published posthumously in the

Lezioni americane

 [

Six Memos for

4233 words

Citation: Wright, Simona. "Il Barone rampante". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 August 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11649, accessed 31 October 2024.]

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