The leper women, deprived of their revels, suddenly found themselves face to face with their disease and spent their evenings sobbing in despair.
Italo Calvino, The Cloven Viscount [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
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the Viscount’s wickedness spared no one and could burst at any moment into the most unforeseen and incomprehensible actions.
Italo Calvino, The Cloven Viscount [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]
If on a winter’s night a traveler
Hermetic Library fellow T Polyphilus reviews If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver.
This book is sublime, and the way that I read it accidentally realized its genius on another plane. I never suspected that a book entertainingly written in the second person singular would turn out to be grounded in a sense of the dual. All writers must be readers, and Calvino was a magician, uniting That and This in his conjuration. [via]