Word: calvino
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...give pause even to the staunchest defenders of the Nobel experiment. Can those charged with making the awards tell quality when they see it? Golding is fine, to be sure, but not before Gordimer, Grass and Greene. And, in alphabetical order, not before Kobo Abe, Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino...
...terrorism or corruption grows, ordinary Italians are withdrawing into individualismo, which means ignoring the social structures and doing one's own thing, and familismo, or pulling back into family togetherness. Such universal disengagement does not shatter the nation. Instead, it keeps Italy functioning remarkably well. Explains Author Italo Calvino: "Italians know that they can count only on their own individual strength, that it is useless to expect anything from an authority whose institutions do not function...
...style now obsolete, the house seems a bit hollow without the four (now grown) children who used to live there or the students who meet there once a week to talk about creative writing. The comfortable, lived-in part is the back, where current fiction (Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino) and current periodicals (The Paris Review, the Nation) lie about and are read. This is where Monroe Engel teaches, writes and, one presumes, takes his sundry nutrients...
Does life have the final say, as promised, or does Calvino have the last word -like any other author? "You," the reader, will have to decide for yourself as your new bride Ludmilla closes her book, puts her head on the pillow and asks: "Aren't you tired of reading...
...final words of the book, say: "Just a moment, I've almost finished If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino...