If on a winter's night a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect, on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave-What story down there awaits its end?-he asks, anxious to hear the story.
Italo CalvinoAbout author
- Author's profession: Journalist, Writer
- Nationality: italian
- Born: October 15, 1923
- Died: September 19, 1985
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