Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist
| Date of Birth | : | 15 Oct, 1923 |
| Date of Death | : | 19 Sep, 1985 |
| Place of Birth | : | Santiago de Las Vegas, Havana, Cuba |
| Profession | : | Italian Writer, Journalist |
| Nationality | : | Italian |
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
Admired in Britain, Australia and the United States, Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death He is buried in the garden cemetery of Castiglione della Pescaia in Tuscany.
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You take delight not in a city's seven or seventy wonders, but in the answer it gives to a question of yours.
What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library?
Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.
The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.
The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.
Work stops at sunset. Darkness falls over the building site. The sky is filled with stars. "There is the blueprint," they say.
I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.
Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible.
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.
