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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
it's more absurd than calvino (not that he's not absurd... but his absurdity strikes me as sometimes more kafkaesque than ionesco-esque),
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I think of Calvino as a fabulist rather than an absurdist, creating modern fables to serve as distorting mirrors of reality. that might be considered absurdist, too, I suppose.
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if i remember correctly, and also i'm pretty sure it was older. but it's a reasonable suggestion. maybe if we can just narrow it down enough, by process of elimination we'll find it...
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IT rings a vague bell, but so far not loudly enough to identify it.
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i love calvino too ; the first of his books i ever read was "if on a winter's night a traveler" and i fell instantly in love.
hmm... perhaps this thread will alternately become a list of books that are NOT the one i can't remember, but are worth reading anyway...
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That's fine by me.
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Dennis