Italo Calvino in lingua tedesca: criticità di una "Ricostruzione architettonica"
This article provides an overview of German translations of Italo Calvino’s major narrative and non-fiction works. A general presentation of editions and translators from 1957 to 2007 is followed by a discussion of Calvino’s ideas on the translation practice and by a linguistic analysis of the way his titles have been translated into German.