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[GOLLUM]

Yes that's quite tradgic. Speaking of fans I gather you haven't crossed paths with Nesacat yet. She's the biggest Calvino fan I've ever come across on these forums.

I think I have almost everything he wrote that is in English.

 

[Mary Hoffman]

Oh, not meaning to sound boastful but my lovely husband gave me the complete (except for essays and fairy stories) Calvino in Italian! It's on such fine paper that it fits into two volumes. One of my very favourite possessions.

And I have come across Nesacat, though not in connection with Calvino.

Mary

 

[speakmoretti]

Oh, not meaning to sound boastful but my lovely husband gave me the complete (except for essays and fairy stories) Calvino in Italian! It's on such fine paper that it fits into two volumes. One of my very favourite possessions.

Oh, wow.
That's all I have to say on the matter, but yes - WOW.


If on a Winters Night a Traveller was the first Calvino I read - pretty much quite by accident - I grabbed it off a bookshelf right before I went travelling because it had the most interesting title, I think. I ADORE it - it's... I just loved reading it.