Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer known for imaginative, allegorical and metafictional works.

Born 1923, died 1985; major works include Marcovaldo, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, The Nonexistent Knight and The Cloven Viscount.

DeBaser reviews praise Calvino's imaginative clarity, ironic tone and formal inventiveness. Recurring themes: moral allegory, metafictional play and accessible storytelling. Reviews highlight both his novels and his short-story work.

For:Readers of literary fiction, students of 20th-century literature, fans of Italian authors and metafiction.

 Calvino's is a brilliant idea, a clear moral confrontation, without nuances or psychological dramas (which we find instead in the other characters), which reveals itself to be even more original when compared to the banalities of a certain culture (especially North American) of the struggle between good and evil.

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 "It is a novel about the pleasure of reading novels, with the protagonist being the reader, who ten times starts reading a book that, due to circumstances beyond their control, they do not manage to finish. I thus had to write the beginnings of ten novels by imaginary authors, all somewhat different from me and different from each other."

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 Calvino's work, therefore, represents an ironic yet fierce critique of the "industrial civilization," which, alongside its advantages of modernity and technological and economic progress, carries with it many other defects, perhaps less material and more spiritual, but ones that profoundly affect Man's relationship with the world and the surrounding nature.

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