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The Castle of Crossed Destinies is a 1973 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. Its narrative details a meeting among travelers who are inexplicably unable to speak after traveling through a forest. The characters in the novel recount their tales via Tarot cards, which are reconstructed by the narrator. The novel …

Difficult Loves is a 1970 short story collection by Italo Calvino. It concerns love and the difficulty of communication. Some published versions of the English translation by William Weaver omit a number of the stories, and also include other Calvino stories about the Second World War and postwar period, including …

Μαρκοβάλντο είναι μια συλλογή από είκοσι σύντομες ιστορίες. γραμμένες από τον Ίταλο Καλβίνο. Αρχικά δημοσιεύθηκε το 1963 ως Μαρκοβάλντο ή Οι Εποχές στην Πόλη. Όμως οι πρώτες ιστορίες γράφτηκαν στις αρχές του 1950. Οι είκοσι ιστορίες έχουν δημιουργηθεί έτσι ώστε να αντιπροσωπεύουν τον κύκλο των εποχών του χρόνου 5 …

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t zero is a 1967 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. The title story is based on a particularly uncertain moment in the life of a lion hunter. This second in time, t₀, is considered by the hunter against known previous seconds and hypothetical future seconds "Qfwfq" narrates the first set of …

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book