Qfwfq describes this process in detail but again, there's no real story here. Calvino is more interested in the biological process itself than he is in creating a story out of it.
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These complaints are still heard today - local community groups objecting to the building of sky-scrapers that will block the sun, or developments on green land. #CalvinoBookClub #ItaloCalvino #APlungeIntoRealEstate #APlungeIntoCalvinoPodcast #CalvinoCentenary2023
Calvino then goes on to indicate that there is a class aspect to this, describing the 'crowded houses of the old part of town, with their mouldy, lichenous walls'. And all this is in the first two pages.
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December's #CalvinoBookClub choice is the novella that gave this podcast its title - A Plunge Into Real Estate, from 1957. I am reading it in a translation by D.S. Carne-Ross.
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If you'd like to hear more of my thoughts on this story (especially on the extent to which it can be considered a horror story) you cam find them on this Halloween-themed episode of the podcast.
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While Baudino's suspicious behaviour reminds that such suspicion was sometimes justified.
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This could be seen as reflecting how the fear of collaborators and informers spreads distrust through a community under a dictatorship, especially in those in positions of authority.
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Also a warning that fascism in some form exists everywhere, just waiting for a leader to unite and embolden the fascists to action.
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