Whether Calvino knew that his fictional languages were real, is debatable.

* Cimmeria ( Calvino ), a fictional country in If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

* In fiction: Cimmeria in the novel If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino

Calvino takes the fact that the Moon used to be much closer to the Earth, and builds a story about a love triangle among people who used to jump between the Earth and the Moon, in which lovers drift apart as the Moon recedes.

Calvino implies a connection between the number of fresh corpses in a graveyard and the frequency of will-o '- the-wisps.

After his debut, Guido and Tonio travel to Rome for his premiere opera, where he gains the patronage of a powerful cardinal, Calvino, and befriends a powerful count from Florence, di Stefano.

In the words of Italo Calvino, he was ' one of the most singular literary personalities in the world, a writer who resembled absolutely no one else.

In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveller was " clearly " influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov.

The Italian novelist Dino Buzzati was a journalist at the Corriere, as were many other leading Italian writers and intellectuals, including Eugenio Montale, Italo Calvino, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Oriana Fallaci and Indro Montanelli.

In 1974 – 1975 he was a fellow at the Warburg Institute, University of London, due to the courtesy of Frances Yates, whom he met through Italo Calvino.

The Italian translation was by Italo Calvino.

Calvino began to undertake the project that will lead to the Italian Folktales in 1954, influenced by Vladimir Propp's Morphology of the Folktale ; his intention was to emulate the Brothers Grimm in producing a popular collection of Italian fairy tales for the general reader.

Italo Calvino included another Italian variant, from Piedmont, The Prince Who Married a Frog, in Italian Folktales ; he noted that the tale was common throughout Europe.

* " Calvino was not a writer of hits ; he was a writer of classics.

In 1970 Calvino brought out his own selection of extracts from the poem.

These have ranged from an Georges Feydeau farce to Herman Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, Edward Albee's Marina, and stagings of texts by Kahlil Gibran, Emily Dickinson, Italo Calvino, Pablo Neruda and Arthur Rimbaud.

At the time of his death Calvino had finished all but the last lecture.

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If on a winter's night a traveler () is a 1979 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.

Examples such as If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino, " a novel about a person reading a novel " is an exercise in metafiction.

Lucier notes a synchronistic event, his reading of If on a winter's night a traveler by Calvino: " What I would like most in the world ... is to make clocks run backward ... No, with thought, by concentrating until I force time to move back .... polydyptic theatre, in which about sixty little mirrors lining the inside of a large box transform a bough into a forest, a lead soldier into an army, a booklet into a library.

Italo Calvino also ventured into fantasy in the trilogy I nostri antenati ( Our Ancestors, 1952 – 1959 ) and post-modernism in the novel Se una notte d ' inverno un viaggiatore ... ( If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, 1979 ).

In an interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated that he began writing Mr. Palomar in 1975, making it a predecessor to earlier published works such as If on a winter's night a traveler.

The Italian novelist Italo Calvino drew on Ariosto for several of his works of fiction including Il cavaliere inesistente (" The Nonexistent Knight ", 1959 ) and Il castello dei destini incrociati (" The Castle of Crossed Destinies ", 1973 ).

According to W. J. Weatherby, influences on The Satanic Verses were listed as Joyce, Italo Calvino, Kafka, Frank Herbert, Pynchon, Mervyn Peake, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jean-Luc Godard, J. G. Ballard, and William Burroughs.

Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy.

The memos are lectures on the values of literature which Calvino felt were important for the coming millennium.

Artists like Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Donald Barthelme, Italo Calvino, John Hodgman and many others have relied on this technique in their work.

In 1984 Italo Calvino wrote an essay on it, which can be found in Collezione di sabbia ( Sand Collection ) by Mondadori.

* William Weaver on Italo Calvino

He has written critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.

Calvino shows us a man on a quest to quantify complex phenomena in a search for fundamental truths on the nature of being.

* Italo Calvino ( 1923 – 85 ), Cosmicomics etc.

Cosmicomics is a book of short stories by Italo Calvino first published in Italian in 1965 and in English in 1968.

Italo Calvino referred to Tristram Shandy as the " undoubted progenitor of all avant-garde novels of our century.

* Zachary Mason's The Lost Books of the Odyssey ( 2007 ) is a series of short stories that rework Homer's original plot in a contemporary style reminiscent of Italo Calvino.

* 1923 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer ( d. 1985 )

In Italy, Italo Calvino published the short story collection Marcovaldo, about a poor man in a city, in 1963.

* October 15 – Italo Calvino, Italian writer ( d. 1985 )

His writing influenced many subsequent novelists such as Marcel Proust, Émile Zola, Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gustave Flaubert, Benito Pérez Galdós, Marie Corelli, Henry James, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, and Italo Calvino, and philosophers such as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx.

Other writers who have been influenced by the Nights include John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Salman Rushdie, Goethe, Walter Scott, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, Nodier, Flaubert, Marcel Schwob, Stendhal, Dumas, Gérard de Nerval, Gobineau, Pushkin, Tolstoy, Hofmannsthal, Conan Doyle, W. B. Yeats, H. G. Wells, Cavafy, Calvino, Georges Perec, H. P. Lovecraft, Marcel Proust, A. S. Byatt and Angela Carter.

In terms of aesthetic values, Italo Calvino cited the fairy tale as a prime example of " quickness " in literature, because of the economy and concision of the tales.

Other notable members have included novelists Georges Perec and Italo Calvino, poets Oskar Pastior, Jean Lescure and poet / mathematician Jacques Roubaud.

* Queneau, Raymond, Italo Calvino, et al.

The Castle of Crossed Destinies () is a 1973 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino.