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...from an autobiography, the passage was but one of dozens of literature verity moments in Italo Calvino's Difficult Loves...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: How Difficult Is Love? | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

...Calvino is the master trickster of modern literature, an author who builds an imaginary stage of words around the reader, until the reader becomes the protagonist. His most recent novel. If on a winter's night a traveler... is written in the second person, describing how "you," the reader, search for the lost ending of the novel If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino. More than any other novelist since Nabokov, Calvino breaks down the barriers between the novel and real life, not by making the story seem realistic, but by making reality seem like...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: How Difficult Is Love? | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

...Calvino did not start his literary career as the Rod Serling of the novel. His first major work, The Path to the Nest of Spiders, was part of the Italian neo-realist movement that emerged from the wreckage of Fascist Italy. Two thirds of the stories in Difficult Loves comes from this period from...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: How Difficult Is Love? | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

...aspects of life during wartime: foraging for food, crossing a minefield, running messages for the Resistance. The worst shot in a village hunts a German soldier in "The Animal Woods," a zoological Times Square of distracting animals. This neo-folktale is an early sign of the interest that led Calvino to compile the "Italian Folktales," the greatest collection of folklore since the Brothers Grim...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: How Difficult Is Love? | 11/13/1984 | See Source »

...wonders Alberto Moravia (and perhaps Italo Calvino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Prague's Indomitable Spirit | 10/22/1984 | See Source »

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