But maybe I am getting the experience of reading confused with the actual quality Calvino is talking about. From Wordnik.com. [Memos « So Many Books] Reference
I will no longer pester you with Calvino lectures. From Wordnik.com. [Final Memos « So Many Books] Reference
I'm sort of stuck with the Calvino book I'm reading. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference
Italo Calvino: Blogger blog about articles archives media. From Wordnik.com. [Italo Calvino: Blogger] Reference
It's very Italo Calvino, the city that is a suburb of itself. From Wordnik.com. [MIND MELD: Real-Life Places That Inspire Exceptional World Building] Reference
Furrow Calvino Chandelier – (bamboo with natural oil finish). From Wordnik.com. [Contemporary lighting from Propellor Design] Reference
Calvino goes on to clarify by using more images from literature. From Wordnik.com. [Memos « So Many Books] Reference
Did you think you would escape from the remaining Calvino lectures?. From Wordnik.com. [Final Memos « So Many Books] Reference
Whatever the case, I wholeheartedly agree with Calvino on this value. From Wordnik.com. [Calvino’s Tude « So Many Books] Reference
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino ~ things mean a lot. From Wordnik.com. [If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino] Reference
Calvino suggests that Henry James has elements that illustrate this idea. From Wordnik.com. [Memos « So Many Books] Reference
If On a Winter's Night a Traveler/Calvino – No, but this sounds far out!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-01] Reference
His literary heroes are not Gorky or Solzhenitsyn, but Borges and Calvino. From Wordnik.com. [Locked in the Writer's Room] Reference
Now twenty years old, Calvino refused military service and went into hiding. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
Italo Calvino, Nabokov, Katherine Dunn, Ray Bradbury . yeesh, I could go on. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Karen Russell author of St. Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves] Reference
McCarthy reignites the literary pyrotechnics of Perec, Calvino, Joyce and Sebald. From Wordnik.com. [Tom McCarthy's "C," reviewed by Samantha Hunt] Reference
Italo Calvino was born in Santiago de Las Vegas, a suburb of Havana, Cuba in 1923. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
By visibility Calvino means visual imagination for both the author and the reader. From Wordnik.com. [Final Memos « So Many Books] Reference
Calvino then spends a bit of time bemoaning the apparent plague afflicting language. From Wordnik.com. [Calvino’s Tude « So Many Books] Reference
I especially love the Calvino Chandelier, made from eco-friendly bamboo (shown above). From Wordnik.com. [Shedding Some Light On Great Design] Reference
Calvino settled in Turin in 1945, after a long hesitation over living there or in Milan. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
Calvino died before he could deliver the lectures and before he wrote the final sixth one. From Wordnik.com. [Memos « So Many Books] Reference
Calvino thinks a swift piece of reasoning is not necessarily better than a long-pondered one. From Wordnik.com. [Memos « So Many Books] Reference
At the end of the Castle section there is a picture of all the cards laid out and Calvino writes. From Wordnik.com. [Finally Finished « So Many Books] Reference
Like Italo Calvino, like Bruce Chatwin, like Raymond Carver, she died at the height of her powers. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories Galore and A New Challenge] Reference
I must add Walter Benjamin, Italo Calvino and all the other smart people are referenced in her work. From Wordnik.com. [Laurie Anderson] Reference
In 1957, disillusioned by the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary, Calvino left the Italian Communist party. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
Despite the triumph, Calvino grew increasingly worried by his inability to compose a worthy second novel. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
Calvino transferred to the University of Florence in 1943 and reluctantly passed three more exams in agriculture. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
The other Calvino books I've read are great though - I loved "The Baron in the Trees" and "The Viscount Split in Half.". From Wordnik.com. [If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino] Reference
Italo Calvino (15 October 1923 – 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
The two teenagers formed a lasting friendship, Calvino attributing his political awakening to their university discussions. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
In an interview, Calvino stated that “San Remo continues to pop out in my books, in the most diverse pieces of writing.”. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
On a darker note, Calvino recalled that his earliest memory was of a socialist professor brutalized by Fascist lynch-squads. From Wordnik.com. [italo calvino | if on a winter’s night a traveler « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference
They do mean something and, moreover, as Italo Calvino points out in his essay on Queneau, they also teach us something about grammar. From Wordnik.com. [Quick Review 08 : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Each lecture examines a quality of literature that Calvino thought important and worthy of developing and carrying into the 21st century. From Wordnik.com. [Memos « So Many Books] Reference
Writers such as Verne, Lem, Borges and Calvino, as well as newcomers such as Sapkowski and Živković, have delighted us with their work. From Wordnik.com. [This week, the World Fantasy Convention! « Haikasoru: Space Opera. Dark Fantasy. Hard Science.] Reference
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