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gptkbp:instance_of
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gptkb:Author
gptkb:Italian_government
gptkb:Writer
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gptkbp:associated_act
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gptkb:translator
gptkb:Italian_Resistance_Movement
Literary criticism
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gptkbp:associated_acts
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gptkb:Italian_Resistance_Movement
Literary criticism
Short stories
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gptkbp:associated_with
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gptkb:Postmodern_literature
gptkb:Italian_neorealism
gptkb:Surrealism
Literary modernism
Italian literature
Literary Group Oulipo
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gptkbp:author
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gptkb:Invisible_Cities
gptkb:The_Baron_in_the_Trees
gptkb:The_Castle_of_Crossed_Destinies
gptkb:The_Cosmicomics
If on a winter's night a traveler
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gptkbp:awards
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gptkb:Austrian_State_Prize_for_European_Literature
gptkb:French_Legion_of_Honor
gptkb:Chevalier_of_the_Legion_of_Honour
gptkb:The_Italian_State_Prize_for_Literature
gptkb:Premio_Strega
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor
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gptkbp:birth_date
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1923-10-15
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gptkbp:born
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October 15, 1923
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gptkbp:born_in
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gptkb:Cuba
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gptkbp:child
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gptkb:Fiorenza_Calvino
gptkb:Marta_Calvino
gptkb:Giovanni_Calvino
Cecilia Calvino
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gptkbp:children
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gptkb:Marta_Calvino
gptkb:Giovanni_Calvino
Cecilia Calvino
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gptkbp:death_date
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1985-09-19
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gptkbp:died
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September 19, 1985
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gptkbp:died_in
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gptkb:San_Remo
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gptkbp:education
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gptkb:University_of_Turin
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gptkbp:famous_for
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gptkb:narrative_structure
Magical realism
Philosophical themes
Metafiction
Narrative structure experimentation
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gptkbp:famous_quote
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“ In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark.”
“ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
“ The more a book is like a book, the more it is like a book.”
“ A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
“ The reader is a kind of collaborator.”
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gptkbp:field
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gptkb:Fiction
gptkb:literature
gptkb:literary_analysis
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gptkbp:genre
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gptkb:postmodernism
gptkb:Fantasy
gptkb:Fiction
gptkb:Postmodernism
gptkb:fantasy
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gptkbp:has_part
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gptkb:Six_Memos_for_the_Next_Millennium
gptkb:The_Castle_of_Crossed_Destinies
gptkb:The_Complete_Cosmicomics
gptkb:The_Path_to_the_Nest_of_Spiders
The Literature Machine
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Italo Calvino
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:David_Foster_Wallace
gptkb:Haruki_Murakami
gptkb:Jorge_Luis_Borges
gptkb:Salman_Rushdie
gptkb:Gabriel_García_Márquez
gptkb:Umberto_Eco
gptkb:Angela_Carter
gptkb:Julio_Cortázar
Contemporary literature
Postmodern writers
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gptkbp:influenced_by
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gptkb:Franz_Kafka
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
gptkb:Virginia_Woolf
gptkb:Italo_Svevo
gptkb:Modernism
gptkb:Surrealism
gptkb:Neorealism
Borges
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gptkbp:influences
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gptkb:Franz_Kafka
gptkb:James_Joyce
gptkb:Marcel_Proust
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gptkbp:inspired
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gptkb:Postmodern_literature
gptkb:Surrealism
Literary theory
Magic realism
Magical realism
Metafiction
Contemporary fiction
Literature of the absurd
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gptkbp:involved_in
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gptkb:Italian_Resistance_Movement
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gptkbp:known_for
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gptkb:narrative_structure
Magical realism
Metafiction
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gptkbp:language
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gptkb:French
gptkb:Italian
English
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gptkbp:literary_movement
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gptkb:Modernism
gptkb:Postmodernism
gptkb:Surrealism
Magical realism
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gptkbp:nationality
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gptkb:Italian
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gptkbp:notable_quote
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" A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
" The reader is a kind of collaborator."
" In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark."
" The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up."
“ In the middle of the journey of our life, I found myself within a forest dark.”
“ A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
“ The more a book is like a book, the more it is like a book.”
“ A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
“ The reader is a kind of collaborator.”
" The more a book is like a book, the more it is like a book."
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gptkbp:notable_work
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gptkb:Mr._Palomar
gptkb:The_Complete_Works_of_Italo_Calvino
gptkb:The_Nonexistent_Knight
gptkb:The_Selected_Poems_of_Italo_Calvino
gptkb:The_Invisible_Man
gptkb:Invisible_Cities
gptkb:Six_Memos_for_the_Next_Millennium
gptkb:The_Baron_in_the_Trees
gptkb:The_Castle_of_Crossed_Destinies
gptkb:The_Complete_Cosmicomics
gptkb:The_Path_to_the_Nest_of_Spiders
gptkb:The_Cosmicomics
gptkb:The_Cloven_Viscount
If on a winter's night a traveler
The Literature Machine
The Adventures of Pinocchio (adaptation)
The Uses of Literature
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gptkbp:notable_works
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gptkb:Invisible_Cities
gptkb:The_Baron_in_the_Trees
gptkb:The_Cosmicomics
If on a winter's night a traveler
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gptkbp:occupation
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gptkb:Journalist
gptkb:essayist
gptkb:short_stories
gptkb:Writer
gptkb:Novelist
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gptkbp:place_of_birth
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gptkb:Cuba
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gptkbp:place_of_death
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gptkb:Siena
gptkb:Paris
gptkb:Sanremo
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gptkbp:published_in
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gptkb:The_New_Yorker
gptkb:The_New_York_Times
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gptkbp:spouse
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gptkb:Margherita_Sgambati
gptkb:Esther_Judith_Cohen
Esther Judith Singer
Margherita Sola
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gptkbp:translated_into
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gptkb:French
gptkb:Spanish
gptkb:German
English
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gptkbp:website
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https://www.italocalvino.com
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gptkbp:writings
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Philosophical themes
Cultural commentary
Exploration of imagination
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gptkbp:wrote
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gptkb:Mr._Palomar
gptkb:The_Nonexistent_Knight
gptkb:Invisible_Cities
gptkb:Six_Memos_for_the_Next_Millennium
gptkb:The_Baron_in_the_Trees
gptkb:The_Castle_of_Crossed_Destinies
gptkb:The_Path_to_the_Nest_of_Spiders
gptkb:The_Cosmicomics
If on a winter's night a traveler
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Italy
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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3
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