Celebrating the Other
May 3rd 2007 07:23
Salman Rushdie says (quoted by Random House on 'If on a winter's night a traveler'):
Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before, This is highly unnerving: fortunately, you're usually too busy laughing to go mad. I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, Britain bums, while the world ends.
I say:
I like to think that his choice of the word 'assailed' signalled a desire to meet the author which doesn't involve travel by sea - can you imagine a meeting between Italo Calvino and Salman Rushdie?
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