![]() summa cum laude in 1946, with postgraduate study at the University of Rome in 1949. state of Virginia and educated at Princeton University B.A. In addition to prose, he has translated Italian poetry and opera libretti, and has worked as a critic and commentator on the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts.īorn in the U.S. William Fense Weaver is perhaps best known for his translations of the work of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino, and has translated many other Italian writers over the course of a career spanning more than fifty years. ![]() Three selections and a transcript of Calvino’s thoughts before being interviewed. Interview with Calvino (produced and directed by Damien Pettigrew and Gaspardĭi Caro) and a memoir by Pietro Citati, the Italian critic. Still later, The Paris Review purchased transcripts of a videotaped It was never completed, though Weaver later rewrote his introduction asĪ remembrance. Interview with Calvino to be conducted by William Weaver, his longtime English ![]() Two years before, The Paris Review had commissioned a Writers at Work Influence of his fantastic novels and stories reaching far beyond the Sources of narrative.” At that time Calvino was the preeminent Italian writer, the New places where it had never been before, and back into the fabulous and ancient Upon hearing of Italo Calvino’s death in September of 1985, John UpdikeĬommented, “Calvino was a genial as well as brilliant writer. ![]() ![]() Interviewed by William Weaver, Damien Pettigrew ![]()
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