Calvino

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• And Calvino's charming Marco Polo and Marcovaldo and Mr. Palomar are archetypal narrative functionaries, nowise to be compared with the great characters of narrative/dramatic literature.
• This makes him sound like Borges or Calvino, and in a sense he is, but with hard science to back him up.
• For two years, Calvino collated tales found in 19th century collections across Italy then translated 200 of the finest from various dialects into Italian. Italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
• One of the many writers Bloom champions is Italo Calvino, the Italian fabulist who died in 1985.
• Would she like to come along with him to a special screening of a film loosely based on one of Calvino's stories?
• Italo Calvino (photo, left) died in 1985, and the writings marking his point of arrival at the time of his death were suffused with an unproclaimed postmodern embarrassment in the face of any demand that writing should be ‘significant.’
• This reminds me of a quote from Italo Calvino (who was most certainly literate): ‘The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but now the illiterates can read.’
• In 1941, Calvino dutifully enrolled at the University of Turin, choosing the Agriculture Faculty where his father had previously taught courses in agronomy. Italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
• Where Calvino's book explores the vertiginous possibilities of literature, Cloud Atlas is about humankind's possibilities.
• To help preserve literary traditions and promote new writers, Mr. Calvino edited a fiction series called ''Cento Pagi'' (One Hundred Pages), short novels that are published by Giulio Einaudi in Turin.