# Italo Calvino on writing through uncertainty

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**Created:** [April 11, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/italo-calvino-on-writing-through-uncertainty/680306 "2026-04-11T02:00:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ellen1979](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/ellen1979/32/31260_2.png) [@Ellen1979](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Ellen1979)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2026, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/italo-calvino-on-writing-through-uncertainty/680306/1 "2026-04-11T02:00:21Z")

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Italo Calvino comes through here as a writer who treated uncertainty as a place to work from, not a problem to eliminate, and the piece traces how that outlook shaped his life and books.

> **[Italo Calvino: A Traveller in a World of Uncertainty | History Today](https://www.historytoday.com/archive/portrait-author-historian/italo-calvino-traveller-world-uncertainty)**

Ellen 🙂