Italo Calvino

Calvino, Italo Filmography

• Play in Full Screen The Boy Who Shouted Teresa

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Dans la peau d'Italo Calvino

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Voyage of No Return

  2009, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Solidarity

  2006, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen L'isola di Calvino

  2005, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen L'isola di Calvino

  2005, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Fellini: Je suis un grand menteur

  2002, role: actor , character name: Ecrivain
• Play in Full Screen L'aventure d'une baigneuse

  1991, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Fantaghirò

  1991, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Efprosopo katafygio

  1990, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Amores dificiles

  1983, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Il cavaliere inesistente

  1969, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen L'amore difficile

  1962, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Boccaccio '70

  1962, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Ti-Koyo e il suo pescecane

  1962, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen I soliti ignoti

  1958, role: writer

Famous quotes by Italo Calvino:

"The struggle of literature is in fact a struggle to escape from the confines of language; it stretches out from the utmost limits of what can be said; what stirs literature is the call and attraction of what is not in the dictionary."

"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."

"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear"

"Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb."

"The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner."

"Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words."

"The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions"

"Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness"

"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."

"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."

"What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts."

"The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines."

"It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."

"The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins."

"The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts."

"Biographical data, even those recorded in the public registers, are the most private things one has, and to declare them openly is rather like facing a psychoanalyst."

"The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."

Italo Calvino

Born: 1923-10-15

Died: 1985-09-19