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Harold BloomHow to Read and Whyp. 63 |
Nostalgia for lost illusions...
Nostalgia for lost illusions, loves that never quite were, happiness perhaps only tasted - these are the emotions Calvino evokes. In Isidora, one of the Cities of Memory, “the foreigner hesitating between two women always encounters a third,” but alas you can arrive at Isidora only in old age.