![]() ![]() ![]() However, he was already moving away from the standard communist approach to literature, i.e. His first novel – Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno (The Path to the Nest of Spiders) – was heavily influenced by the then fashionable neorealism movement and his communist views. He had started writing fiction at the end of the war, producing many stories which were only published later. He had also become a communist but left the party after the Soviet invasion of Hungary. After university, he worked in publishing and journalism. ![]() He joined a partisan brigade but resumed his studies after the war, switching to literature and writing a thesis on Joseph Conrad. He studied agriculture at the University of Turin but had to break off his studies when the Germans occupied Italy. His parents were working there as botanists but the family returned permanently to Italy when Calvino was two years old, living on a farm in San Remo, where his parents continued their botanical work. Italo Calvino was born in 1923 in Santiago de las Vegas in Cuba. ![]()
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