An Optimist in America: 1959-1960 (calvino Classic)
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As has been his habit for a long time, Calvino always strives to deeply understand the connotation of things, observing from the perspective of anthropologists and cybernetics, such as the operation of the American social system; but during his sojourn, he also completed the task of Aeginaudi Publishing House and introduced the works of American writers such as J. D. Salinger, Bernard Malamud, and Saul Bellow to Italy. He turned his travels into long letters written to Turin. These letters were somewhere between diary and reportage, and some of them also became a series of articles published in weekly magazines. "An Optimist in America" is a compilation of these materials. Following Calvino's footsteps, we discover a different and more "simple" America than we imagined. ...
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