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Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino (1976, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100156226006
ISBN-139780156226004
eBay Product ID (ePID)42272
Product Key Features
Book TitleCosmicomics
Number of Pages168 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicForm / Comic Strips & Cartoons, General, Cosmology
Publication Year1976
GenreFiction, Science, Humor
AuthorItalo Calvino
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.9 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN76-014795
Dewey Edition18
ReviewsMetaphysical conceits are a thing of the past. Now with moon shots and interstellar probes, a writer really in tune with his age has to think of scientific conceits, or better yet, treat mathematical formulate, or theories and equations from physics, as if they were "characters" gamboling about the universe, beaming and burping through the void, carrying on the most enlightened (though not necessarily enlightening) conversations:" 'Ahal' I said. 'Why don't we play at flying galaxies?' 'Galaxies?' Pfwfp suddenly brightened with pleasure. 'Suits me. But you. . . you don't have galaxy!' 'Yes, I do. . ." ' Italo Calvino offers many similar exchanges, his tales being extraordinary and brilliant (if you like them; tiresome and thin, if you don't) variations on the whole spectrum of evolutionary transformations, contractions, and expansions that have affected time and space since whatever your version of genesis happens to be. Calvino is a witty and fanciful fellow who enjoys linguistic pirouettes somewhat in the manner of Nabokov, but he lacks the latter's commanding personality, and he relies too heavily on the pathetic fallacy (the illusion that external objects have human feelings), so we find his simple cellular creatures telling us "When I was a kid, the only playthings we had in the whole universe were the hydrogen atoms. . . ." etc. etc. For science fiction devotees, in any case, clearly the most sophisticated item yet from that genre.
Dewey Decimal853/.91
SynopsisEnchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. "Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?" Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
LC Classification NumberPZ3.M7962
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- Feb 18, 2024
Great read
Just as weird as I had hoped.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
