"[Italo Calvino is] one of the world's best fabulists."
–John Gardner, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
"Calvino is a wizard."
–Mary McCarthy, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
"[Calvino] manages to charm and entertain the reader in the teeth of a scheme designed to frustrate all reasonable readerly expectations."
–John Updike, THE NEW YORKER
"Calvino is that very rare phenomenon, a true original . . . If on a winter's night a traveler is breathtakingly complex and self-conscious (there are moments when it quite literally makes one gasp with astonishment) . . . [yet it] is one of the most accessible and enchanting novels written in the last fifty years."
–from the Introduction by Peter Washington