Calvino İtalo
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
His style is not easy to classify; much of his writing has an air reminiscent to that of fantastical fairy tales (Our Ancestors, Cosmicomics), although sometimes his writing is more "realistic" and in the scenic mode of observation (Difficult Loves, for example). Some of his writing has been called postmodern, reflecting on literature and the act of reading, while some has been labeled magical realist, others fables, others simply "modern". He wrote: "My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language."
“Ama bu dikey kentte,bütün boşlukların dolmak, her betonarma blokun başka bloklarla iç içe geçmek eğilimi gösterdiği bu sıkıştırılmış kentte, duvarlar arasındaki boş dilimlerden, yönetmeliklerin iki yapı arasında öngördükleri en az uzaklıklardan, iki yapının arka arkaya vermesinden oluşan bir tür karşıkent, eksi kent ortaya çıkıyor; yapı aralarındaki boşluklardan, aydınlatma deliklerinden,havalandırma kanallarından taşıt geçitlerinden, küçük iç alanlardan, bodrum girişlerinden oluşan bir sıva ve zift gezegeni üzerindeki kuru kanal ağını andıran bir kent; işte eski kedi halkı duvarların sıkıştırdığı bu ağda dolaşıyor.”