Italian novelist who developed a playful, philosophical postmodern fiction — fables, cosmological tales, and metafictional games that engage with language, structure, and narrative.
Invisible Cities: Marco Polo describes 55 cities to Kublai Khan — a meditation on space, memory, desire, and civilization. If on a winter's night a traveler: a novel about reading, structured as the interrupted beginning of ten different novels. Cosmicomics: creation mythology rewritten as whimsical first-person tales by primordial beings. Six Memos for the Next Millennium: lectures on literary values.
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