SOURCE: “The Speculating Intellectual at the Crossroads: Four Novellas,” in Understanding Italo Calvino, University of South Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 68–88.
In the following essay, Weiss investigates Calvino's treatment of the individual and society in The Argentine Ant, A Plunge into Real Estate, Smog, and The Watcher.
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