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Italo Calvino

• Jan 30, 2015 The Baron In The Trees By Italo Calvino
• May 19, 2023 If On The Winters Night A Traveler By Italo Calvino I was wondering a lot about greatness while reading this. I don't think Italo Calvino is one of the greats, but I do love what he does. There is something a bit Borgesian about this, maybe Kafkaesque or maybe a bit more delightfully Snicketesque, and I think Calvino almost earns his own adjectivification, but not quite. This is a series of beginnings, a collection of stories by an author that doesn't enjoy writing the ends, a love letter about reading and then on the contrarywise a bit about writing, like the man from Borges who determines to write Don Quixote or like the man from DFW who determines to make the ultimate entertainment or like the man from Nabokov who gets tangled in the endnotes of Pale Fire. All wrapped in a delightful second-person framing device of international intrigue, conspiracy, and apocrypha.
• Mar 5, 2024 The Complete Cosmicomics By Italo Calvino