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Salman Rushdie Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Calvino's Formal Experimentation

Rushdie outlines Calvino's later formal shifts, Oulipo influences, and his movement toward clearer fables like The Nonexistent Knight.

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