The Road to San Giovanni - Italo Calvino Hien Montijn demonstrated both his belief in

demonstrated both his belief in the consummate power of poetry and his liberal views

Evoking a remote and long-vanished world with colour and immediacy

vooral zijn grenzeloze optimisme en zijn ambitieuze plan om de plaatselijke bevolking te helpen

een telg uit een muzikantenfamilie

Assepoester twijfelt aan haar prins en vindt het leuk om gehaat te worden door haar stiefzusters

The Road to San Giovanni - Italo Calvino Hien Montijn demonstrated both his belief inA collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literatureIn these five elegant autobiographical meditations Italo Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists. He also muses on the social contracts, language and sensations associated with emptying the kitchen rubbish and the shape he