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In the internationally-acclaimed writer of a number of this century's most stunningly unique books comes this posthumous assortment of thirty-six fictional documents that'll create any lucky audience watch the previous classics in a stunning new light.Learn why Lara, not Zhivago, may be the middle of Pasternak's masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago, and why Cyrano de Bergerac may be the precursor of modern-day science-fiction authors. Find out how several odysseys The Journey includes, and why Hemingway's Nick Adams stories really are a peak of twentieth century literature. From Ovid to Pavese, Xenophon to Dickens, Galileo to Gadda, Calvino addresses the classics he's liked many with documents which are available, clean, and smart.