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    A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats"
    A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats"
    A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats"
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    A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats"

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    A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJul 27, 2016
    ISBN9781535823821
    A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats"

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      A Study Guide for Italo Calvino's "Garden of Stubborn Cats" - Gale

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      The Garden of Stubborn Cats

      Italo Calvino

      1983

      Introduction

      The Garden of Stubborn Cats (1983) is a short story by Italian author Italo Calvino. It is part of the collection Marcovaldo, or The Seasons in the City (1983), in which all the stories revolve around the title character and his unusual adventures in a rapidly urbanizing Italian city. Though the stories were originally published in Italian in the 1950s and early 1960s, they were unavailable to English-language readers until 1983, when Harcourt began publishing the author's earlier works with translations by William Weaver.

      In The Garden of Stubborn Cats, Marcovaldo decides one day during lunch break to follow a neighborhood cat. He discovers a secret world that exists within the one he inhabits, where cats have adapted to fashion their own urban way of life. Like the other stories in Marcovaldo, The Garden of Stubborn Cats is notable for the elements of fantasy and humor the author injects into an otherwise realistic setting. The story also serves as a bittersweet cautionary tale about the things that are lost in the name of progress.

      Author Biography

      Calvino was born near Havana, Cuba, on October 15, 1923, to two Italian botanists and teachers, Mario Calvino and Eva Mameli. The family returned to Italy in 1925 to live in Sanremo, a northern coastal town very close to the French border. Situated between the Mediterranean Sea and the Maritime Alps, Sanremo enjoys mild weather with a year-round temperature of around fifty degrees Fahrenheit. These conditions allowed the family to successfully grow fruits scarcely seen in the region. Calvino grew up amidst these and other natural wonders, and he inherited from his parents an interest in the sciences and in nature. However, even at a young age Calvino had aspirations to become a

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