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    tale interesting and well anchored. His writings are very well-constructed; it’s like the soft cotton inside the seed: Even if the topic is hard to think about‚ the writer makes it warm and soft and makes his point very clear to the reader. Italo Calvino not only writes short well-crafted tails but also focuses on real life and relates them to scientific aspects. An example of this can be Cosmicomics; one of his very popular books where the appearance of the characters were very simple. The writer

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    works is to analyse their authentic setting and the encounters of the creator. This historical feedback concentrates basically on historical occasions that happened when the work was composed and the first goals of the creator in which who wrote it. Calvino who is known for addressing what establishes a literature classic came up with 14 points. One in which he is well known for is “classics are books which exercise a particular influence‚ both when they imprint themselves on our imagination as unforgettable

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    „« 10th March 2006 „« Rocky (PG) „« Running time= 115 Minutes „« Year Made= 1976 „« Author= Unknown „« Director= John G Avildsen „« Producer= Irwin Winkler ROCKY- Sylvester Stallone MICKEY- Burgess Meredith APOLLO- Carl Weathers Plot Summary: Rocky Balboa is a Philadelphia club fighter who seems to be going nowhere in his boxing career and even his life. As fate would have it‚ Rocky is chosen by The Heavyweight Champion of the World‚ Apollo Creed to fight for the World title. Rocky

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    Procrastination – An essay on If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler written by Italo Calvino Perhaps this sentence would suit as the closing one. Well at least I have to consider it. Finally‚ ideas are starting to evolve now that I have sat myself down with my cup of coffee; Calvino thought drinking coffee was adequate for reading and writing‚ so I drink it while I do just that‚ read or write. The amount of procrastination this essay has received is not even measurable through the metric system; such

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    province of Badajoz Province in Spain’s South west coast. He was born in 1475 Balbo’s father was a poor nobleman. He served the Lord of Moguer. When he served Lord of Moguer he received all types of training for example Arms training‚ Hunting‚Etc. Balbo owed his creditors from Hispaniola a great deal of money‚ so he hid in a flour barrel on a boat heading to Darien (which is now Panama) with his dog( Leonico) hoping to find gold and treasures. Vasco de Nunez Balboa: Leonico‚ Be quiet Leonico‚ Ruff

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    The Nonexistent Knight

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    unconventional logic. Italo Calvino‚ an Italian novelist‚ considered this concept in The Nonexistent Knight. The author showcases postmodernism in breaking standard literary traditions to convey the general notion that there are no absolute truths in the world. By manipulating traditional archetypes and stereotypes‚ the author purposely alters

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    concept of a single objective meaning determined by the author. Calvino demystifies the authority of the author in the novel through the use of metafiction structure and the multiplicity of authors which make the reader aware and critical of the fiction and the author. Calvino presents reading as a subjective process through the multiplicity of reading and deliberate ambiguities which develop the idea of multiple interpretations. Calvino uses self-reflective metafiction to make the reader aware that

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    Italo Calvino and Gabriel Garcia Marquez do not blatantly state their positions on the subject‚ but yet surreptitiously use a backdoor approach to disperse their message. In order to communicate the ridiculousness of religion both authors construct characters and events representing religious figures and beliefs. This ridiculousness sets up the idea that people allowing themselves to be guided through life by a fictional and forecasted fate lack individual freedom and expression. Italo Calvino and

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    California State University‚ Dominguez Hills Essay 3 Examining characteristics of postmodern fiction depicted within Italo Calvino’s novel If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler Casey Robertson (202306117) crobertson25@toromail.csudh.edu HUX 581: Key Periods and Movements‚ Philosophy: Philosophy and Postmodernism 07 27 2012 When discussing the genre of postmodern literature‚ Italian author Italo Calvino’s 1979 novel titled If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler is definitely a work worthy of

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    The opposite also holds true‚ or as Corn phrases it‚ the reader must “shuttle between the two stories and somehow synthesize them” (84). This act of fluidly moving between the micronarratives in Pale Fire is not lost on Nabokov as the eccentric Kinbote writes in his forward‚ “I find it wise in such cases as this to eliminate the bother of back-and-forth leafing by either cutting out and clipping together pages with the text of the thing‚ or‚ even more simply‚ purchasing two copies of the same work

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