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...preface, Calvino writes,"Perhaps, in the end, it is only your first bookthat counts, perhaps you should only write thatone and stop...the opportunity to express yourreal self happens only once, what you have to sayinside you is either said at that point ornevermore." Calvino's life demonstrates theuntruth of that statement. Nests is notCalvino's best book and is not where he expresseshis "real self" most interestingly. What makesNests worth-while for Calvino connoisseursis that his early work reveals a part of himselfthat is distinctly more personal from what thereader sees in his later work. Those new toCalvino would...
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