| Re: Venice
Well, I have obviously! One of the epigraphs to City of Masks is from Invisible Cities. It is absolutely my favourite Calvino (though there is stiff competition). Although I don't have Scalem X's wonderful battery of languages, I can read Italian, so have it in both the English and Italian editions.
The first time I read it, I had to put it down after every few pages because it was so stimulating of ideas for writing.
Not long ago I met the Italian illustrator sara Fanelli, who lives in the UK, and discovered that she is a great Calvino fan too, with IC her favourite book.
It's not YA but it is magical realism and anyone attracted to speculative fiction should like it very much.
Mary |