For 10 points, name this Italian author of If on a winter's night a traveler.
A chapter in one of this author's novels describes a variety of reactions to a ringing telephone before the narrator rescues Marjorie Stubbs. An essay by this author extols the virtues of books that "take a form equivalent to the universe" and "exert a peculiar influence". Another of his books contains essays about quickness, exactitude, visibility, multiplicity, and most notably lightness. In a novel by this man, a character accidentally finds himself having sex with Madame Miyagi while pursuing her daughter Makiko. This author of (*) "Why Read the Classics?" and Six Memos for the Next Millennium created the fictional authors Takakumi Ikoka and Silas Flannery, as well as the Cimbrian People's Republic and Cimmeria, in a novel whose protagonist encounters Ludmilla after buying a misprinted copy of this man's new book. For 10 points, name this Italian author of If on a winter's night a traveler.
A chapter in one of this author's novels describes a variety of reactions to a ringing telephone before the narrator rescues Marjorie Stubbs.
Italo Calvino