by Italo Calvino · Seix Barral. · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432222450
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«El barón rampante» is the novel by Italo Calvino, published by Seix Barral in hardcover (246 pages, in Spanish).
Cosimo, a young nobleman of the eighteenth century, climbs into the trees after a family argument and decides never to come down. From the treetops he travels through villages, converses with philosophers, and intervenes in the life of his community, turning his exile into a meditation on freedom, individuality, and the bond between man and nature.
Second installment of the series «I nostri antenati»; the work was originally published in 1957 as «Il barone rampante». Translation by Francesc Miravitlles.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
