Italo Calvino

Italo Calvino (Spanish: Italo Calvino) (October 15, 1923 – September 19, 1985) was an Italian writer, journalist, critic, and novelist born in Cuba and raised in San Remo, Italy. In the 1960s, he focused on new critical and philosophical schools in France, particularly the works of Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida.

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