Gore Vidal sat down with Riz Khan to discuss Italo Calvino, whom Vidal describes as “the only great writer of my time”. Vidal’s essay on Calvino is available here.
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I disagree that Faulkner was nothing but a showboat or that Calvino was the only great writer of the time. However, Calvino is certainly overlooked and I have thought to myself more than once while reading his works that he has saved my life in a very subtle way.
Reblogged this on grimeandtreason and commented:
A very old and curmudgeonly critic on a very imaginative, profound and overlooked writer.