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"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler
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Prestige, formally daring, meticulous and spare.
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
- rawmeticulous
- sparerichly built
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 260
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, L&OD Key Porter, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780544133402
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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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