Influences
In a 1985 interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveller was "clearly" influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov. The book was also influenced by the author's membership in the Oulipo; the structure of the text is said to be an adaptation of the structural semiology of A.J. Greimas.
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“Without looking, then, to those extraordinary social influences which are now acting in precisely this direction, but only at what is inevitably doing around us, I think we must regard the land as a commanding and increasing power on the citizen, the sanative and Americanizing influence, which promises to disclose new virtues for ages to come.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Whoever influences the child’s life ought to try to give him a positive view of himself and of his world. The child’s future happiness and his ability to cope with life and relate to others will depend on it.”
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“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)