Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was, at the time of his death, in 1985, the most translated contemporary Italian writer.
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A short story, written in 1946: “Occasionally a train sets off along the seafront railway, and on that train there’s me, leaving.”
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Fiction, from 1983: “I sat there facing her, but at the same time it was as if a part of me, or all of me, were contained in her mouth, crunched, torn shred by shred.”