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de Italo Calvino (Author), Archibald Colquhoun (Author), M. L. McLaughlin (Author) "including the tone of my earliest short stories and of my first novel. This is what strikes me most today: the anonymous voice of that..." En savoir plus
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Gore Vidal, The New York Review of Books

As [his contemporaries] continue to look for the place where the spiders make their nests, Calvino has not only found that special place but learned how himself to make fantastic webs of prose to which all things adhere.


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The coarse eroticism and the political idealism...were excised from the first English translation and are now reinstated....Time has treated The Path to the Spiders' Nests well.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 at the margins of the resistance: funny, sad, chaotic, Fév 11 2004
Par Robert J. Crawford (Balmette Talloires, France) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This is an absolutely wonderful novel about a boy who wanders into the Italian resistance during WWII. There, he finds a hilarious panoplie of characters, from lice-infested peasant marxists to the hyper-intellectual young co-leader. Each person is rendered so vividly - and if you have ever lived in Italy you recognise the types - that the novel is extremely dense and pleasureful.

The plot is fairly simple: a young boy from a chaotic household has to flee after being arrested for stealing a pistol from his sister's German "client." (He was trying to impress the ineffectual drunks in his usual hangout, a smoky and dilapidated bar, and then gets caught up in the resistance.) All the time, he is lonely and desperately seeking a special companion, someone to love and take care of him. It is not a heroic tale, but one about what it was really like in the resistance: more about the pauses and boredom, the bad food and promiscuity, the strange thoughts by men risking their lives for murky as well as clear-cut causes - the socialist revolution or to rid their countryside of the Germans who steal their cows. This is a new and fascinating view, told with great wit and style. This is the first novel I read in Italian, and its vocabulary is difficult but wonderfully succinct and clear.

Warmly recommended.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Picaresque, prescient, pithy, Janv. 18 2004
Par Smart Vidiot (Neither here nor there) - Voir tous mes commentaires
This review is from: The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition (Paperback)
A fascinating tale of compassion and dispair in the postwar picaresque tradition of writers like Gunther Grass.
Told from the perspective of the boy, Pin, Calvino's vision is fresh and imaginative. The tale invites us to understand the resistance movement as one not only of bravery, but of anxious restlessness and chaos. Through the commander Kim, we see war--on either side--as the defense of the humiliated against their aggressors. No one is spared. In this, we see a bit of ourselves and the current political arena in Washington and Iraq.
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4.0étoiles sur 5 while the city is still visible, Aoû 30 2001
Par Doug Anderson (Miami Beach, Florida United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Path to the Spiders' Nests: Revised Edition (Paperback)
I looked for this book for years after reading about it in a Gore Vidal essay I believe. Finally I noticed it was in print again and so I at last read it. This may not be Calvino's best to Calvino fans but to those of us who aren't particular fans of the Calvino style this is his first book and so the style isn't altogether there yet. To me that is a good thing. As artists become masters of their craft they begin to control their material to such an extent that nothing is left to chance. The charm of this book is that Calvino is not in complete command and so the book has a kind of raw innocence very suitable to its subject matter(WWII Italy) and lead character(a child). This is a very earthy book and that word does not apply to later Calvino. All the stuff is here that will later appear in more perfect form, but for this material he is in just the right form.
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