Published in 1957, Calvino’s utopian novel

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] is part of a trilogy,

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], that occupied its author from 1952, date of the publication of

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], to 1959, when

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] arrived in bookstores. With this ‘heraldic trilogy’ planned by the author himself as a narrative unity, Calvino aimed to reflect on the reality of contemporary society, and particularly on the condition of the individual in the twentieth century. However, as he stated in a “Note” to the 1980 English translation of the work by Archibald Colquhoun and later in

, one of the five Norton lectures published posthumously in the

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Citation: Wright, Simona. "Il Barone rampante". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 August 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=11649, accessed 25 April 2024.]

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