I can never be done. I mentioned that I should probably stop talking about Italo Calvino in a Vladamir Nabokov class. However, this may be one of the greatest discoveries I've made in the class-- Vladamir Nabokov had a HUGE impact on his contemporaries and followers, or, perhaps, a game did. Check out this passage from Invisible Cities about chess and see if it reminds you of anybody. It appears that like Nabokov, Calvino was very interested in chess and potentially used it to influence some of his writing-- at least as a theme. Maybe when this semester is over I will conduct some personal research to see just how related Calvino and Nabokov really are.
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