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a list compiled by Alex Kasman (College of Charleston)

Author includes the word(s): Italo Calvino
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Numbers in the Dark (La notte dei numeri) (1990)

Italo Calvino

A boy looking around the huge office building where his mother works meets an old accountant who now works with computers but reveals to him an undiscovered arithmetic error made back in one of the company's... (more)

Quanto scommettiamo ("How much do you want to bet?") (1965)

Italo Calvino

The story is about two beings, living since the beginning of the universe (one of them, the protagonist of the book, is "old Qfwfq" - it's not a misprint -, a mysterious being that claims to have witnessed... (more)

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