by Italo Calvino · El País · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669499
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«El barón rampante» is the novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino, published by El País in hardcover (299 pages, in Spanish).
Cosimo, Baron of Rondò, climbs a tree at age twelve in rebellion against his family and decides never to come down. From the treetops he follows the events of his time, from the French Revolution to the Napoleonic wars, and preserves his independence and his particular view of the world.
Second novel of the trilogy «Nuestros antepasados», completed by «El vizconde demediado» and «El caballero inexistente». Translation by Esther Benítez; Viareggio Rèpaci Prize in 1957.
Suitable for adult and teenage readers; a classic of twentieth-century Italian literature.
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).
