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Italo Calvino

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Born: October 14 1923

Died: 1818 09 19851985

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a 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 .

His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales , although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation . Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."

Italo Calvino

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Born: October 14 1923

Died: 1818 09 19851985

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Italo Calvino

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Books from Italo Calvino

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Invisible Cities

The Baron in the Trees

Cosmicomics

Il visconte dimezzato

Il cavaliere inesistente

Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno

Marcovaldo

Difficult Loves

Six Memos For The Next Millennium

The Complete Cosmicomics

That Awful Mess on the Via Merulana

Our Ancestors: The Cloven Viscount, The Baron in the Trees, The Non-Existent Knight

The Uses of Literature

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