Italian · b. 1923
Italo Calvino was an Italian writer celebrated for his dazzling inventiveness and playful intelligence, author of Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveler, and Our Ancestors.
Italo Calvino moved from early neorealist and fable-like fiction toward the dazzling formal experiments for which he is best known, becoming one of the most inventive and beloved writers of the twentieth century.
His works include the fantastical trilogy Our Ancestors, the prose poem of imagined cities Invisible Cities, the metafictional If on a winter’s night a traveler, and the Cosmicomics stories. Combining playfulness, intellectual depth, and lightness of touch, his fiction continually reinvents what a story can be.
Calvino is celebrated as a master of imaginative, philosophically playful literature, whose work delights and provokes in equal measure.
by Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino's dazzling experimental novel about reading itself. Addressed to 'you,' the Reader, it offers the openings of ten different novels — each broken off at a moment of suspense — woven into a playful, profound meditation on books, readers, and the act of reading.
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