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Questionnaire, 1956

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Calvino, I. (2014). Questionnaire, 1956. In Calvino, I. Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings. Mariner Books, pp. 7-15

(noun) the scope, extent, or bounds of something

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I have been living in Turin since 1945, always in the ambit of the Einaudi publishing house, for which I started to work by selling books on hire purchase

—p.8 by Italo Calvino
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

I have been living in Turin since 1945, always in the ambit of the Einaudi publishing house, for which I started to work by selling books on hire purchase

—p.8 by Italo Calvino
notable
2 months, 3 weeks ago
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[...] The stories that I am interested in narrating are always stories about a search for human completeness, integration, to be achieved through trials that are both practical and moral at the same time, and that constitute something above and beyond all the alienation and division that is imposed on contemporary man. This is where any poetic and moral unity in my work should be sought.

—p.10 by Italo Calvino 2 months, 3 weeks ago

[...] The stories that I am interested in narrating are always stories about a search for human completeness, integration, to be achieved through trials that are both practical and moral at the same time, and that constitute something above and beyond all the alienation and division that is imposed on contemporary man. This is where any poetic and moral unity in my work should be sought.

—p.10 by Italo Calvino 2 months, 3 weeks ago