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If on a winter's night a traveler (Italian: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore) is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The postmodernist narrative, in the form of a frame story, is about the reader trying to read a book called If on a winter's night a traveler. Each chapter is divided into two sections.
Italo Calvino (/ k æ l ˈ v iː n oʊ /, [1] [2] also US: / k ɑː l ˈ-/; [3] Italian: [ˈiːtalo kalˈviːno]; [4] 15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian writer and journalist. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible ...
This is a list of notable Italian writers, including novelists, essayists, ... Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Andrea Camilleri (1925–2019) Dino Campana (1885–1932)
Invisible Cities is an example of Calvino's use of combinatory literature, and shows influences of semiotics and structuralism. In the novel, the reader finds themselves playing a game with the author, wherein they must find the patterns hidden in the book.
The Path to the Nest of Spiders (Italian: Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno) is a 1947 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. The narrative is a coming-of-age story, set against the backdrop of World War II. It was Calvino's first novel.
Cosmicomics (Italian: Le cosmicomiche) is a collection of twelve short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968. The stories were originally published between 1964 and 1965 in the Italian periodicals Il Caffè and Il Giorno.
Qfwfq is as old as the universe and has taken various forms, of which Qfwfq retains his memory. For example, in the short story "Blood, Sea" (found in the collection t zero) this character is a man riding in a car with three other people, but this man also remembers when he lived in the form of an amoeba of sorts inhabiting a primeval ocean. [1]
The Baron in the Trees (Italian: Il barone rampante lit. ' The Rampant Baron ') is a 1957 novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino.Described as a conte philosophique [1] and a metaphor for independence, it tells the adventures of a boy who climbs up a tree to spend the rest of his life inhabiting an arboreal kingdom.