This is one giant fucking gimmick, even by postmodern standards

>>9028023
so what. it's still amazing.

Why do you think so? I plan to read it soon, i thoughts those are some surrealistic stories with fancy prose, to read while stoned

>>9028082
>le second person xD

>He didn't ejaculate upon becoming intimately involved in the bedroom scene as a physically arrested mentally invested reader

>He didn't wholeheartedly question his own sanity while looking through the maze of mirrors in the 5th or 6th schizotypal chapter

>>9028023
Yeah but it's still good so

>>9028104

This guy gets it

I'm to read Le Citta' Invisibili. Never read any Calvino before but I'm looking forward to it. If I enjoy it, is this the next step?

all of his books are gimmicky, but i feel this has a weaker gimmick than others

>>9028023

Its honestly a great book.

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Pretty comfy tho

Tfw my got my mom to read this she said she didn't understand it but said she enjoyed it nonetheless

>>9029181
This was my first and only Calvino so far. It's pretty good, famalamadingdong

>>9028023
Try Cosmicomics, it is what real science fiction should be.

>>9028082
this is one of my favorite novels.

i tried to read this once while stoned (it was the chapter of the guy moving out of his room while being "replaced"), and my heart started beating so heavily that i put it down.

his prose fluidly shifts from absurd and intellectual to physical and deeply erotic. truly, he was a master of the craft.
>p.s. the difference between calvino and other postmodern authors is like the difference between dali and surrealists: dali actually knew how to paint well.

is he worth "learning" Italian for if I already speak two romance languages and read Latin fairly well?

>>9029618
italian is probably the least controversial language in which to translate a book into english.

a good translation is fine desu senpai