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Reviewed on September 15, 2014 | Fiction
For readers of international fiction, the late Italian writer Calvino (Invisible Cities) needs no introduction. A world-class novelist with a penchant for experimentation, Calvino believed that realist fiction had exhausted itself and that only radical departures from traditional narrative and subject matter would revitalize it. Calvino's response to this dilemma was to invent a new genre called cosmicomics: part sf, part fabulism, ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More