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Salman Rushdie Reads Italo Calvino

The New Yorker: Fiction

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Calvino's Use of Symbols and Comedy

Rushdie explains Calvino's symbolic imagination, comic touch, and early reliance on meaning-making that later evolved into clarity.

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