Best Italy

… ennui (or noia, to be exact), suffused with the 20th-century secular sexuality that makes Italy, like Brazil, Catholic and sensual at the same time.Italo Calvino showed that an Italian novelist could best the French at their own surrealist, postmodernist, Oulipo-nutty ways. (The “Oulipeans,” such as Paris-based Georges Perec, liked to write novels without a particular letter, among…

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