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This author described the fictional author Bertrand Vandervelde, whose Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow is translated by Ermes Marana. The brother of The Dark Girl of Long Alley meets the partisan leader Red Wolf in jail in one of his novels, which sees Pin steal a pistol from a Nazi officer. In another work by this man, mythical creatures return to Theodora, literary stereotypes populate (*) Melania, and the streets are filled with dirt in Argia, three of the titular entities. This author of The Past to the Nest of Spiders described an exchange of defective manuscripts with Ludmilla in one work and fictionalized the encounter between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo in another. The author of Invisible Cities, for 10 points, name this Italian who notably employed the second person in If on a Winter's Night a Traveler.
This author described the fictional author Bertrand Vandervelde, whose Looks Down in the Gathering Shadow is translated by Ermes Marana.
Italo {Calvino}