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

Simona Wright (College of New Jersey)

Ed. by Jo Ann Cavallo, Columbia University
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.6.1: Italian Writing and Culture, 453-present.
Vol. editors: Carla Bregman (Independent Scholar - North America), Jo Ann Cavallo (Columbia University)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1957

Places

Cuba (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Novel

Resources

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 The Cloven 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 …

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Citation: Wright, Simona. "Il Barone rampante". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 August 2019 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11649, accessed 21 November 2024.]

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