Be Calvino

>be Calvino
>be the greatest writer of the 20th century
>start writing about your philosophy on writing
>title it “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”
>finish five of them
>die

What did he mean by this, anons??

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>greatest writer of the century
>20th century
You are forgetting Kafka, faggot.

I’d take Invisible Cities over The Metamorphosis any day

The Nonexistent Knight is fantasy for patricians.
Change my mind.

That is a fantastic book cover

Read The Castle, and bathe in the greatness of Before The Law.
Think about the plot of Metamorphosis: its about a dude who turns into an insect for profoundly metaphysical reasons. Its cool as fuck.
What does Calvino have? Two dudes ramble about Venice - the end. Literature is indeed an axe with which we chop the frozen seas inside of us; and Calvino's axe is wooden.

Give ma a sensible Calvino reading order and I will begin with him tonight.

Invisible Cities

the last one was intended to be "be yourself"

Ah yes you sound like quite the connoisseur of literature

Marcovaldo is so fucking underrated. Urban fairy fables. The most charming cartoons set in writing.

Great input, user.

>be Calvino
>be the greatest writer of the 20th century
Sure if you forget Kafka, Joyce, Borges, Faulkner, and Beckett.

>muh kafka
>it’s cool because he becomes a bug and I like stucking bugs up my nose
>I don’t like thinking
Ok retard

Generally, start with the fiction before the nonfiction, but you can read them in any order. I started with Invisible Citites, but if you don’t feel like reading a bunch of settings with little plot just yet, you should read If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.

>Kafka

I, too, remember when I was an angsts teenager.

Cannot comment on Calvino but I can testify that the Castle is a truly frightening, impressive works of 20th century literature.

>tfw we live in a timeline where Kafka did not even get to the point where Joseph K. enters the Castle and its still a masterpiece.

I laughed out loud literally thanks for the jest m9
kafka is a dirty piece of german shit

Now now user, Kafka is damn good. He just isn’t anywhere close to Calvino, that’s all.
Nice one, user. I’ve actually got something from all of those authors on my shelf, just below the Calvino shelf, which is just below the other Calvino shelf. I’d say Borges is a cool 2nd place, and Kafka comes in at 3rd. Never got around to finishing Joyce or Beckett.

Calvino writes YA novels. There I said it

You’re talking mad shit for somebody in winter night traveling distance

Bump, none of you tards have answered the question

would starting a conspiracy theory start moving the waters about the missing 6th point, or waste energies ?

>be Calvino
>be the greatest writer of the 20th century

in what universe

Do you think he berried a finished version somewhere?

>Calvino
>Die
It's obvious he meant that no matter how great you become, death will make us all equal in the end.

It’s not missing, it just didn’t get finished
All of them, faggot
Fuck, I never thought of that user. He really was a humble man

You are all niggers, who can't appreciate the sheer genius of my man Franz "Big Axe" Kafka.
Calvino is literally John Green and also gay.