A story by this author ends as its narrator attempts to construct a hypothetical version of the fortress in which he is imprisoned.
A story by this author ends as its narrator attempts to construct a hypothetical version of the fortress in which he is imprisoned. A professor created by this author works in "a dead department of a dead literature in a dead language," and is named Uzzi-Tuzii. "Without Colors" and "All at One Point" are among the stories narrated by Qfwfq ("kiff-wiff-ick") in this author's Cosmicomics. All fifty-five of the title locations are assigned feminine names in a novel this author wrote as a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. For 10 points, name this Italian author of Invisible Cities who included alternating chapters in second-person narration in If on a winter's night a traveler. 
A story by this author ends as its narrator attempts to construct a hypothetical version of the fortress in which he is imprisoned.
Italo Calvino