Re: If on a winter\'s night a traveler --- Italo Calvino
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He's got wildly varying styles and he's great at all of them. If you liked that work, don't hesitate to try out his other stuff. Invisible Cities is one of my favorite books. The Baron in the Trees, Cosmicomics, and The Argentinian Ant are all good starting points. I think everyone should read Cosmicomics. It's a collection of short stories that is one of the most amazingly inventive things ever written. (And it's not a comic.)
He also did a fantastic collection of Italian fairy tales. He's kind of his country's Brothers Grimm. There's an incredible amount of pleasure to be had there, and even if you've read countless collections of folktales, you'll still find new, interesting fun there.
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I would like to add The Nonexistant Knight and the Cloven Viscount to your list.
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