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- Born: October 15, 1923
- Birth place: Santiago de Las Vegas, Cuba
- Nationality: Italian
- Died: September 19, 1985
- Literary style: Postmodernism
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Italo Calvino was an Italian writer and journalist who has written such popular pieces as If On a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities and the Cosmicomics series. Calvino was born in Cuba but his family moved to Italy when he was only two years old.
Political Beliefs
Italo Calvino embraced the post-World War II communist movement of Europe in the early years of his writing career. After he graduated from college, he joined the Italian Communist Party and was active with Turin's worker movement. He also took a job as a journalist for l'Unità, a daily communist newspaper. He eventually lost faith in the communist movement and in 1956, the invasion of Hungary caused him to resign from both l'Unità and the Italian Communist Party.
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Italo Calvino Quotes
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- "I set my hand to the art of writing early on. Publishing was easy for me, and I at once found favor and understanding. But it was a long time before I realized and convinced myself that this was anything but mere chance."
- "Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb."
- "Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it."
- Thinkexist.com: Italo Calvino Quotes
- “Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness”
- “The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions”
- "Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words.”
- BrainyQuote: Italo Calvino Quotes
- "A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
- "In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision."
- "It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear."
- "The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him."
- WorldofQuotes.com: Italo Calvino Quotes
- "Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives."
- "The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient prohibitions."
Italo Calvino Quotes Questions
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