The Worlds of Italo Calvino
Despite Calvino’s reputation as a postmodernist, his imagination was more in tune with pre-modern literary modes.
By Merve Emre
Italo Calvino was, word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century...
The book that gives us Calvino the romantic and Calvino the craftsman in equal measure is “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.” It is the book that makes people fall in love with Calvino, because it is a book about falling in love through reading.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/the-worlds-of-italo-calvino