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Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings
by Italo Calvino
Oct. 26, 2023 - Nov. 8, 2023 (read, memoirs, great-writing, writing-dvice)

Calvino, I. (2014). Hermit in Paris: Autobiographical Writings. Mariner Books.


Mariner Books, 2014. 272 pages. Paperback. 9780544146693

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p.194
calumny »
(noun) a misrepresentation intended to harm anoth…
p.182
calque »
(verb) originate or function as a loan translatio…
p.8
ambit »
(noun) the scope, extent, or bounds of something
p.242
they are never people you can trust
> The language of an artist, as Montale said, is …
p.231
storytellers have to tell stories
Now that I am sixty, I have at last realized that…
p.230
I always think of the pros and cons in everything
But now, once again, I have found a formula for p…
p.229
meeting the needs of a modern Italy
Instead I deepened what had always been my convic…
p.203
we Italian Communists were schizophrenic
[...] But at that time, twenty-four years ago, ou…