Wolfe and Calvino

Alex David Groce · 22 Feb 2000, 10:04 · from urth-v0028.mbox · original

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From: Alex David Groce <Alex_Groce at gs246.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: (urth) Wolfe and Calvino
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:04:54
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"If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" was translated into English by William
Weaver, who also does Eco's translations.  It's my favorite Calvino book--
probably because it's a tribute to the act of reading.  If I recall, a genre
science fiction pastiche is, unfortunately, not among the half-begun books
that it contains.

The list archives contain considerable discussion of whether Wolfe is a
post-modernist, etc.  I would say he's more accurately described as a=20
modernist.

"And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." John 8:32
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Alex David Groce (agroce+ at cs.cmu.edu)
Ph.D. Student, Carnegie Mellon University - Computer Science Department
8112 Wean Hall (412)-268-3066
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~agroce

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