Italian journalist and writer (1923-1985)
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He wrote cities that don't exist and novels that fold in on themselves like origami. Calvino turned fiction into architecture — playful, precise, and somehow both weightless and immense.
Born in 1923, Italo Calvino built his reputation slowly, starting with the Our Ancestors trilogy between 1952 and 1959. By 1965 he'd shifted into stranger territory with Cosmicomics, short stories that bent time and space. Then came Invisible Cities in 1972 and If on a winter's night a traveler in 1979 — books that didn't just tell stories but dismantled the act of storytelling itself. By the time he died in September 1985, he was the most translated Italian writer of his generation, admired across Britain, Australia, and the United States for work that read like thought experiments dressed as…
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What makes love making and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for.
If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable.
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together.
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