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He was a famous Italian writer and literary critic.<br /><br />He wrote critical biographies of Goethe, Alexander the Great, Kafka and Marcel Proust as well as a short but unforgettable memoir on his thirty-year friendship with Italo Calvino.<br /><br />In Kafka, Pietro Citati has the great writer declare: "'I am like you, I am a man like you, I suffer and rejoice as you do, like a meticulous and buoyant angel, a being who lives far away in a world that did not belong even to him."<br /><br />From 1973 to 1988, he contributed to the cultural section of Corriere della Sera and had been the literary critic for la Repubblica since 1988.
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