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Prestige, cool, open-ended and grave.
- unpretentiousprestige
- cooloverwhelming
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 129
- Publisher
- Pan Books, Vintage, Harcourt Brace & Company
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780099268055
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“In the midst of a thick forest, there was a castle that gave shelter to all travelers overtaken by night on their journey: lords and ladies, royalty and their retinue, humble wayfarers.”
Italo Calvino (Santiago de Las Vegas de La Habana, 15 ottobre 1923 – Siena, 19 settembre 1985) è stato uno scrittore e paroliere italiano. Intellettuale di grande impegno politico, civile e culturale, è stato uno dei narratori italiani più importanti del secondo Novecento. I numerosi campi d'interesse toccati dal suo percorso letterario sono meditati e raccontati attraverso capolavori quali la trilogia de *I nostri antenati, Marcovaldo, Le cosmicomiche, Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore,* uniti dal filo conduttore della riflessione sulla storia e la società contemporanea. ---------- Italo Calvino (Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalis
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