“What makes love making and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space”

— Italo Calvino

"If on a winter's night a traveller". Chapter 7. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver (1981).

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Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels 1923–1985

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