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	title:	Italian Folk Tales (Penguin Modern Classics)
	author:	Italo Calvino
	format:	Paperback
	publisher:	Penguin Classics
	released:	February 24, 2000
	isbn:	0141181346
	isbn-13:	9780141181349

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magcal realism realised - Rated Calvino, the consummate allegorical fantasist, set himself the task of collating and documenting what was hitherto an untapped source of oral folk tradition in his adopted homeland. What he discovered was an unsurpassed wealth of folk tales and moral parables, and according to the introduction to this amazing volume, he was soon "possessed by a kind of mania" for collecting and comparing the vast portfolio with which he was presented. What is eminently evident in this collection is the passion which he brings to the retelling of the 200 stories, gilded with his inimitable style and bearing all the hallmarks of his own longer fiction. With a sensitive and intelligent translation that loses none of the almost tactile language of the original, this is truly a modern European classic. Pure storytelling at it's best. - Rated Calvino's folktales are a wonderful assortment of simple stories. Make-believe for grown ups, most of the tales feature good v's evil, the trusting hero being outwitted by the evil sorcerer, only to rise again and marry the king's daughter- that kind of thing. The happiest book i`ve read.

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magcal realism realised - Rated 5/5
Calvino, the consummate allegorical fantasist, set himself the task of collating and documenting what was hitherto an untapped source of oral folk tradition in his adopted homeland. What he discovered was an unsurpassed wealth of folk tales and moral parables, and according to the introduction to this amazing volume, he was soon "possessed by a kind of mania" for collecting and comparing the vast portfolio with which he was presented. What is eminently evident in this collection is the passion which he brings to the retelling of the 200 stories, gilded with his inimitable style and bearing all the hallmarks of his own longer fiction. With a sensitive and intelligent translation that loses none of the almost tactile language of the original, this is truly a modern European classic.

Pure storytelling at it's best. - Rated 4/5
Calvino's folktales are a wonderful assortment of simple stories. Make-believe for grown ups, most of the tales feature good v's evil, the trusting hero being outwitted by the evil sorcerer, only to rise again and marry the king's daughter- that kind of thing. The happiest book i`ve read.