Novel Quotes by Italo Calvino

9 Novel quotes by Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino provides nine brief notes on the novel, each showcasing his inventive imagination. This short set gives a clear taste of his playful narrative approach.

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Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened…

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler.

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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

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How much energy is wasted in Italy in trying to write the novel that obeys all the rules. The energy might have…

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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in…

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The things that the novel does not say are necessarily more numerous than those it does say and only a special halo…

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“Your case gives me new hope," I said to him. "With me, more and more often I happen to pick up a…

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The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure,…

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You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveler. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other…

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“I ask you to come down to earth," said the Baron in a calm, rather faint voice, "and to take up the duties of…

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The unconscious is the ocean of the unsayable, of what has been expelled from the land of language, removed as a result of ancient…

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“... KUBLAI: We have proved that if we were here, we would not be. POLO: And here, in fact, we are.”

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“And yet, in Raissa, at every moment there is a child in a window who laughs seeing a dog that has jumped on a…

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“Ludmilla, now you are being read. Your body is being subjected to a systematic reading, through channels of tactile information, visual, olfactory, and not…

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“Once the process of falsification is set in motion, it won't stop. We're in a country where everything that can be falsified has been…

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We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

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“Perhaps it is this story that is a bridge over the void, and as it advances it flings forward news and sensations and emotions…

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Yet, even now, ever time (often) that I find that I don't understand something, then instinctively, I'm filled with the hope that perhaps this…

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