Calvino

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• Then, on a stormy night or in an early morning airport, as Italo Calvino wrote in Invisible Cities, you meet a stranger...

  Blog text (19)

• Indeed, Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, or Garcia Marquez sell more.

  Academic text (1997)

• Henry James, the collected stories of Italo Calvino, a history of Venice.

  Fiction book (1992)

• According to Italo Calvino, "literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement."

  Fiction book (2000)

• To quote Italo Calvino: "The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: The continuity of life, the inevitability of death."

  Stranger Than Fiction (2006)

• The technique is exemplified in If on a Winter Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino.

  Academic text (1992)

• P.S. Roger, if you haven't read it, I strongly recommend Italo Calvino's If On a Winter's Night a Traveler.

  Blog text (17)

• Our understanding of what it is to be young is thus rather like Italo Calvino's crystal: formed out of the accretions and sedimentations that this strange fact draws to itself as a function of being part of our narratives.

  Academic text (2004)

• Just as in a patchwork quilt, the pieces are held together by a border cut out from one fabric, in Calvino's novel the various fragments are embedded in a frame narrative that binds them into a cohesive whole.

  Academic text (1992)

• According to Italo Calvino, "literature remains alive only if we set ourselves immeasurable goals, far beyond all hope of achievement."

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