What matters is not the enclosure of the work within a harmonious figure, but the centrifugal force produced by it -- a plurality of language as a guarantee of a truth that is not merely partial.
Weitere Zitate von Italo Calvino
Zum Autor"Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death."
"Every morning I tell myself, 'Today has to be productive' - and then something happens that prevents me from writing."
"The obstinacy on which power is based is never so fragile as in the moment of its triumph."