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Italo Calvino, Reconsidered | The New Yorker

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Despite Calvino’s reputation as a postmodernist, his imagination was more in tune with pre-modern literary modes.

Save this story Save this story The bookstore in your neighborhood sits on a busy corner. You pass it on your walk to work in the mornings, and on your walk home in the evenings, and although you sometimes admire the clever geometries of its window display, rarely do you take a closer look. But, not long ago, the sight of a particular book made you pause. Your eye lingered on its pure-white cover and on a curious shape cut into it. Without thinking, you walked into the store. The clerk was working at her computer. The other customers were leafing through books lifted from the great pyramids of

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