by Italo Calvino · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788478444120
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«De fábula» is Italo Calvino's essay collection, published by Siruela in paperback (176 pages, in Spanish).
Volume inaugurating the «Biblioteca Calvino»: it brings together Italo Calvino's prefaces on the fable, written at different times, from African fables to Sicilian mimi and the Mantuan and Irish traditions. Together they trace the author's theoretical map of a genre that interested him for the essential logic of folk tales.
First title in the «Biblioteca Calvino» collection, translated from Italian by César Palma and Carlos Gardini.
For readers interested in Italo Calvino, literary criticism and the study of traditional tales.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
