附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-226) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction: Calvino's Life and Circumstances -- Ch. 2. A Neorealistic Path to Literary Exordium: The Path to the Nest of Spiders -- Ch. 3. Fantastic and Realistic Webs of Prose -- Ch. 4. Our Ancestors: A Viscount, a Baron, and a Knight -- Ch. 5. The Speculating Intellectual at the Crossroads: Four Novellas -- Ch. 6. Calvino's Co[s]mic Mosaic -- Ch. 7. An Intellectually Playful Artifice: t zero -- Ch. 8. The Combinatorial Play of Narrative Possibilities: The Castle of Crossed Destinies; Invisible Cities -- Ch. 9. Calvino's Ultimate Hypernovel: If on a winter's night. . . -- Ch. 10. Posthumously: Under the Jaguar Sun; La Strada di San Giovanni -- Ch. 11. Conclusion: The Unredeeming Author: Mr. Palomar.
