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Italo Calvino: Novels as dull...

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Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.

Source: The Novel as Spectacle, in Il Giorno (Milan, 14 Oct. 1970; repr. in The Literature Machine, 1987).
-- Italo Calvino, (Oct 15 1923-1985), Italian journalist, short-story writer, novelist; His whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important Italian fiction writers in the 20th century.


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