Research Catalog

Title

The complete Cosmicomics / Italo Calvino ; translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver.

Author

Calvino, Italo

Publication

London ; New York : Penguin Classics, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McLaughlin, M. L. (Martin L.)
• Parks, Tim
• Weaver, William, 1923-

Description

xxiv, 401 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

When the moon was closer to the earth, he would once a month, when its orbit made it possible climb a ladder to its scaly surface. He remembers life on the nebulae when matter first began to exist, causing great confusion and destroying his grandmother's pillow. As a child, he used the curve of space to play marbles with brand-new atoms. With the rest of his family, he evolved to walk on land only his great-uncle stubbornly remained a fish. And when the rest of the Dinosaurs died he was surprised to be greeted with gracious kindness instead of mortal fear by the new inhabitants of the Earth. This is the life of Qfwfq, the unique narrator of Italo Calvino's comic stories of the strangeness of the universe. They are extremely funny, imaginative beyond the scope of the galactic distances they conjure, beautifully written and absolutely unforgettable. This new collection is the first complete edition in English and includes seven stories never before translated.

Series Statement

Penguin modern classics

Uniform Title

• Cosmicomiche. English
• Penguin modern classics

Alternative Title

Cosmicomiche.

Subject

Italian literature

Genre/Form

• short stories.
• Short stories
• Science fiction
• Nouvelles.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Italian.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The distance of the moon -- At daybreak -- A sign in space -- All at one point -- Without colours -- Games without end -- The aquatic uncle -- How much shall we bet? -- The dinosaurs -- The form of space -- The light-years -- The spiral -- More of Qfwfq -- The soft moon -- The origin of the birds -- Crystals -- Blood, sea -- Mitosis -- Meiosis -- Death -- t zero -- The chase -- The night driver -- The Count of Monte Cristo -- The mushroom moon -- The daughters of the moon -- The meteorites -- The stone sky -- As long as the sun lasts -- Solar storm -- Shells and time -- World memory -- Nothing and not much -- Implosion -- The other Eurydice.

ISBN

• 9781846141652
• 1846141656

LCCN

^^2009483435

OCLC

• 312626676
• SCSB-10915077

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library