'A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say' - Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino (Author)
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was
an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of
Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the
twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include
Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo
and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli.
He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal
writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.
William Weaver (Translator)
William Weaver has translated Umberto Eco, Italo Svevo, Primo Levi,
Italo Calvino and Roberto Calasso, among others. He is a professor
at Bard College.
Ingenious
*Mail on Sunday*
Breathtakingly inventive
The greatest Italian writer of the twentieth century
*Guardian*
Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he
is writing down what you have always known, except that you've
never thought of it before.This is highly unnerving: fortunately
you're usually too busy laughing to go mad... I can think of no
finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain burns,
while the world ends
A devastating, wonderfully ingenious parody of all those dreary
best-sellers you buy at the airport... It is a "world novel": take
it with you next time you plan to travel in an armchair
*Observer*
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