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FICTION: Difficult Loves, Italo Calvino Foreign Affairs, Alison Lurie The Ink Truck, William Kennedy Mr. Noon, D.H. Lawrence ∙ Say Goodbye to Sam, Michael J. Arlen Young Hearts Crying, Richard Yates
DIFFICULT LOVES by Italo Calvino Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 290 pages...
When a writer achieves international renown, translators and publishers work overtime spreading all of the new celebrity's good words. This commendable practice has an unsettling side effect: careers can appear to run backward. The case of Italian Author Italo Calvino is instructive. His reputation grew from such cerebral narratives as Cosmicomics (1968) and Invisible Cities (1974); before long, Calvino's name was being bracketed between those of Borges and Nabokov in the fabulists' Hall of Fame. When Italian Folk Tales was translated and published in the U.S. in 1980, Calvino's exquisitely simple retellings...
...gang and then swims off. But that is not quite all. A resonance lingers; the sound of splashing and the play of light and shadow remain to tease the imagination. If he had never gone beyond the skill displayed in these early efforts, the world might not have recognized Calvino; but the touch of the born storyteller is here all the same...
...scenes in Difficult Loves share some of this limpid strangeness: Calvino's deep visions seen before he began, inventively and entertainingly, to ruffle the surface...