"Italo Calvino was, word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century...yet The Written World and the Unwritten World, translated with no-nonsense precision by Ann Goldstein, remind us how enamored Calvino was of the craftsmanship of the pre-modern era."
— The New Yorker
“Calvino, that artisan of possibilities, is of his time and our time, as is this collection, which is a necessary addition to our knowledge of and conversations about him, one hundred years after his birth.”
— Ploughshares
“Wonderful… Calvino’s prose is sparkling as ever, and he approaches ideas with wit and an open mind, always ready to challenge a stale point of view. This anthology will delight Calvino fans old and new.” — Publishers Weekly
“The Written World and the Unwritten World reminds us why we write, why we read, and how that makes us human.”
— New York Journal of Books