Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was an Italian author of fantastic fiction, known especially for his collections of postmodern and magical-realist stories.

 

 

 

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Listed below are Calvino’s speculative texts

 

The Baron in the Trees (1957)

translated by Archibald Colquhoun (Random House, 1959)

 

 

 

 

 

The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount (1959; 1952)

translated by Archibald Colquhoun (Random House, 1962)

 

 

 

 

 

Cosmicomics (1965)

translated by William Weaver (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968)

 

 

 

 

 

t zero (1967)

translated by William Weaver (Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1969)

includes “The Soft Moon,” “The Origin of the Birds,” “Crystals,” “Blood, Sea,” “Mitosis,” “Meiosis,” “Death,” “t zero,” “The Chase,” “The Night Driver,” and “The Count of Monte Cristo”

 

 

 

Invisible Cities (1972)

translated by William Weaver (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974)

 

 

 

 

 

If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979)

translated by William Weaver (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981)