Question

Edmond Dantès (“don-TESS”) imagines Dumas writing billions of variants of The Count of Monte Cristo in a collection by this author, (15[2])titled for a story contained in the moment (15[1])when a hunter fires an arrow (15[2])at (15[1])a lion. (15[6])This author created a unicellular narrator who evolves into a camel and a primordial (15[1])sea in a story titled for their love interest, “Priscilla.” Two characters (15[1])bet atoms on events (15[1])that will happen (15[1])in the far future in a story (0[1]-5[1])by this (15[1])author. (15[1])In a story by this author of (*) t zero, (10[5])characters (10[1]-5[1])climb (10[1])a ladder to farm milk (10[3])from the moon, (10[2])where Captain (10[1])Vhd (10[2])Vhd’s (10[1])(“vood-vood’s”) wife (10[1])becomes (10[3])trapped with the recurring narrator Qfwfq (10[2])(“KOOF-kuh”). This author named the 55 title constructs after women in a novel framed as a conversation between Kublai (10[1])Khan and Marco Polo. (10[2])For 10 points, name this author of Cosmicomics and Invisible Cities. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Italo Calvino [or Italo Giovanni Calvino Mameli]
<CH, European Literature>
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