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A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. “Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty” (Gore Vidal, New York Review of...
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A collection of stories about time, space, and the evolution of the universe in which the author blends mathematics with poetic imagination. “Calvino does what very few writers can do: he describes imaginary worlds with the most extraordinary precision and beauty” (Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780156924009 (0156924005)
Publish date: October 4th 1976
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pages no: 152
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Science,
Technology,
Literary Fiction,
Magical Realism,
Short Stories,
Italian Literature
This book is Calvino at his most oblique, weird and science fictional. Worth a read if you're a fan, but if you haven't read any of his other work, start somewhere else: I'd suggest Invisible Cities.
I never know where I will end up when reading anything by Italo Calvino, but I do know that I will be in for an interesting journey. Having studied way too much physics and math for most anthropologists, I enjoyed letting my mind wander through Calvino's earthly evolution. The part that always seems...
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