Italo Calvino
Italian novelist and essayist known for inventive, formally original works blending realism and fantasy, author of Invisible Cities and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler; here delivering his James Lecture later published as 'The Written and the Unwritten Word.'
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May 10, 2026 • 47min
Italo Calvino on the Written and the Unwritten Word
Italo Calvino, Italian novelist celebrated for Invisible Cities and experimental fiction, delivers a reflective James Lecture on writing and reading. He contrasts the ordered world of text with the unpredictable lived world. He discusses how reading reshapes perception, the challenge of describing objects and senses, and why writers keep returning to the unwritten.
