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Italo Calvino

“How is it possible to defeat not the authors but the functions of the author, the idea that behind each book there is someone who guarantees a truth in that world of ghosts and inventions by the mere fact of having invested in it his own truth, of having identified himself with that construction of words?”

Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
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