Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.
Italo Calvino Quotes
The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.
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| Birth: | 15th October, 1923 |
| Death: | 19th September, 1985 |
| Nationality: | Italian |
| Profession: | Journalist, Novelist, Writer |
About
Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy, the Cosmicomics collection of short stories, and the novels Invisible Cities and If on a winter's night a traveler. Lionised in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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