The Complete Cosmicomics

By:

Calvino, Italo

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014Description: xxiv, 401pISBN:

9780544146440 (hb.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

853.914 CAL

Summary: Italo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-544-14644-0 Reviewed by Seth Satterlee. Nearly 50 years after the publication of the original Cosmicomics, Calvino's 34 connected tales%E2%80%94spanning three separate collections%E2%80%94are finally together for the first time in English. The majority of the stories begin with a scientific assertion (reasonable or far-fetched) and feature the omnipresent narrator Qfwfq, cosmological guide and witness to the origins and formation of the universe.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Plaksha University Library	Fiction	853.914 CAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		004792

Italo Calvino, trans. from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $24 (432p) ISBN 978-0-544-14644-0
Reviewed by Seth Satterlee. Nearly 50 years after the publication of the original Cosmicomics, Calvino's 34 connected tales%E2%80%94spanning three separate collections%E2%80%94are finally together for the first time in English. The majority of the stories begin with a scientific assertion (reasonable or far-fetched) and feature the omnipresent narrator Qfwfq, cosmological guide and witness to the origins and formation of the universe.

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