Things I Said No To
Michael Wood: Italo Calvino, 17 April 2003
Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings
by Italo Calvino.
Cape, 255 pp., £16.99, January 2003,0 224 06132 1 Show More
by Italo Calvino.
Cape, 255 pp., £16.99, January 2003,
“... Diary 1959-60’, included in Hermit in Paris. It’s as if he had followed Humbert to Charlotte Haze’s house (Mexico is ‘a rich source of decorative furnishings’) and seen more than one of Humbert’s dreary watering places (‘America keeps its promises: there is the bar with its wall adorned with hunting trophies of deer and reindeer; in ... ”