It certainly does! And it is wonderful.
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Italo Calvino was born 102 years ago today. He was a writer of delights, a fighter of fascism, and possessor of a mind always curious and subtle. Although he died in 1985, he was so far ahead of his times that his work feels like a map of our Invisible Cities and a guide to our Crossed Destinies.
15.10.2025 20:45 — 👍 19 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Happy Birthday, Italo Calvino! (b.Oct.15, 1923)
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“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” ~ Invisible Cities
Born on this day Italian writer Italo Calvino 1923
#Booksky
15.10.2025 12:12 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of a man wearing a turtleneck riding a bicycle.
Writer Italo Calvino
#BicycleBirthday
October 15 (1923-1985)
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Italo Calvino on Writing: Selected Wisdom from a Lifetime of Letters
“One writes most of all in order to take part in a collective enterprise.”
Italo Calvino, born 102 years ago today, on writing – selected wisdom from a lifetime of letters by one of the greatest storytellers who ever lived www.themarginalian.org/2013/06/10/i...
15.10.2025 15:28 — 👍 12 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
A gifted writer, he held firm to his principles. He despised Mussolini and fascism and, at his mother’s suggestion, joined the resistance. Calvino’s life is punctuated with extraordinary events. After the 2WW, he wrote about combat, communism, and travel. He became a writer’s writer, beloved in Europe and America, where his writing was praised and he was recognized with countless awards.
An undated, b/w photo of Italo Calvino
Photo Credit: Emilio Ronchini / Mondadori / Getty
Image Source: The New Yorker
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
Italian writer Italo Calvino was born on this day in 1923.
#WriterSky #Resistance #BOTD
15.10.2025 16:14 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Italo Calvino on Photography and the Art of Presence
“The life that you live in order to photograph it is already, at the outset, a commemoration of itself.”
"The life that you live in order to photograph it is already, at the outset, a commemoration of itself."
An epoch before Instagram, Italo Calvino (who would have been 102 today) wrote so movingly about photography and the art of presence: www.themarginalian.org/2015/10/15/i...
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Italo Calvino (with Jorge Luis Borges) - BOTD
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15.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 1
Remembering journalist & writer (of short stories and novels) Italo Calvino, born October 15, 1923, Santiago de Las Vegas, near Havana, Cuba (d. September 19, 1985). I read If on a winter's night a traveler (1979) in college -- it's a novel every writer & every reader should read. (More: alt text)
15.10.2025 17:37 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Caricature of Calvino with his head in his hands.
Here’s a fourth!
Italo Calvino by David Levine, 1974
Today we’re celebrating Calvino’s birthday 🎂
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In 1960 Raymond Queneau & François Le Lionnais created Oulipo, an experimental writing group that still exists today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oulipo
I've never seen a key for this photo, but I recognize Italo Calvino & Harry Mathews sitting on the left, & Georges Perec behind Queneau.
15.10.2025 14:24 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Calvino holds a glass globe in his hand; it reflects the scene, but upside down.
Gianni Giansanti
Italo Calvino
1984
"If digressions become so complex, so tangled & tortuous, so rapid as to hide their own tracks, who knows, perhaps death may not find us, perhaps time will lose its way & perhaps we ourselves can remain concealed in our shifting hiding places."
15.10.2025 14:20 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Calvino stands in a Paris square, bundled up in an overcoat & scarf
Italo Calvino by Sophie Bassouls, Saint Germain des Prés, December 5, 1974
"I wrote 'If on a winter's night a traveler' to show how well I could write if I did not exist."
15.10.2025 14:15 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Street scene in New York from inside a vehicle; the view is obscured by raindrops on the windshield.
"The imagination is a place in which it rains."
- Italo Calvino
📷 Chien-Chi Chang
New York City, June 23rd, 2017
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Portrait of Calvino superimposed on architectural features of various cities
“Italo Calvino was, word for word, the most charming writer to put pen to paper in the twentieth century.”
- Merve Emre, from a fine article in the New Yorker
newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Love the illustration by Daniele Castellano
15.10.2025 14:12 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Three-quarter portrait of the author in a three-piece suit
Remembering Italo Calvino on his birthday 🎂
📷 Ulf Andersen, 1984
"Architect of scrupulously imagined, apparently fantastic, insidiously plausible words, Calvino occupies a literary space somewhere east of Jorge Luis Borges & west of Vladimir Nabokov."
- Michael Wood
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Happy birthday to the late Italo Calvino! An author who fearlessly braved the frontiers of imagination. #booksky
15.10.2025 18:56 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
- Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
born on this day, 1923
#BookSky
#ItaloCalvino
15.10.2025 04:50 — 👍 12 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Italo Calvino🌹
*October 15, 1923
+September 19, 1985
Italian writer, associated with Italian realism, and a humorous fabulist.
"Myths and mysteries are made of impalpable grains, like the pollen that remains stuck to the legs of butterflies; only those who understand this can hope for surprise"
15.10.2025 06:03 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
"More than any other writer I know, to begin a new Calvino story is like embarking on a voyage to unknown lands. There is a joy to the sense of expectation he inspires..." — Chris Power
Italo Calvino #botd
15.10.2025 07:13 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Flatland - Wikipedia
I think it's more likely a reference to this;
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland
09.10.2025 09:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
So...you are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller? Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade.
07.10.2025 12:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“Yes, the empire is sick, and, what is worse, it is trying to become accustomed to its sores. This is the aim of my explorations: examining the traces of happiness still to be glimpsed, I gauge its short supply.” ~ Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
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Italo Calvino
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Do the Right Thing - Boston Review
On Italo Calvino's letters, 1941–1985.
Leland de la Durantaye reviews the letters of Italo Calvino, who fought fascists in World War II & issued a clarion call for responsibility in a “torn-apart world”:
We must “seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno”—and devote to them our every effort.
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Rome 1960. Pier Paolo Pasolini met Italo Calvino bij Caffè Rosati aan de Piazza del Popolo.
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I used to recommend If On A Winter's Night A Traveller but got mixed responses. I've switched to Cosmicomics and get better results.
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