Italo Calvino

In a collection of stories written during the 1940s and 1950s, the author captures moments of revelation in the lives of ordinary people, instants blending recognition and alarm as deceptions and illusions are laid bare

Difficult Loves

unsure if many of these will stick with me, but easy to read, enjoyable, very calvino. loaned to me by a suitor

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Will Vunderink

Difficult Loves is a beautiful book of impressionistic glances at the inner lives of ordinary people. It's the most realistic of Calvino's books that I've read -- for its simple, unambitious depictions of the world and its crystal-clear images that ring true -- and his most empathic, too, with an uncanny grasp of human emotion. If the metaphysical imaginings of Invisible Cities or the postmodern puzzle that is If on a winter's night a traveler... have turned you off, give this book a try and Calvino might surprise you.

Difficult Loves

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