For 10 points, name this author of The Baron in the Trees and If on a winter's night a traveler.
This author wrote about a paranoid king who sits in his castle and listens for sounds of rebellion in the story "The King Listens," part of a collection of three stories, each of which focuses on a different sense. He wrote a philosophical novel divided into three sections, each of which has three subsections, each of which has three chapters. He wrote a novel in which Cosimo refuses to eat the dinner of snails which his sister makes, and decides to flee society. He created the fictional country of Cimmeria in one novel. In that novel by this author of Mr. Palomar, the odd-numbered chapters are written in the second person and are about the reader's attempts to read the novel itself. For 10 points, name this author of The Baron in the Trees and If on a winter's night a traveler.
This author wrote about a paranoid king who sits in his castle and listens for sounds of rebellion in the story "The King Listens," part of a collection of three stories, each of which focuses on a different sense.
Italo Calvino