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“... At the beginning of Italo Calvino’s first book for six years, an entirely fictional personage named You, the Reader, buys and settles down with a novel which he firmly believes to be the new Calvino. You prepare to recognise the unmistakable tone of the author. No. You don’t recognise it at all. But now that you think about it, who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next ...”

“... civetta (The Day of the Owl), published in 1961 and translated into English soon afterwards by Archibald Colquhoun and Arthur Oliver, is a masterpiece of irony and concision. The same can be said of the rest of the novel and the thirty books that followed over the next 28 years – most of them not much longer than a hundred pages – until ...”