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“We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I’ve ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing.” — from The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these thirty-four dazzling stories — collected here in one definitive anthology — relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world. They are an indelible (and unfailingly delightful) literary achievement. “Nimble and often hilarious . . . Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I — or anyone, really — can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” — Colin Dwyer, NPR
The Complete Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino- Amazon Sales Rank: #34831 in Books
- Brand: Mariner Books
- Published on: 2015-09-08
- Released on: 2015-09-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.10" w x 5.31" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 432 pages
Review 'If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you ... the most joyful reading experiences of your life' - Salman Rushdie 'Entirely unlike anything that anyone else has written ... In Cosmicomics Calvino makes it possible for the reader to inhabit a meson, a mollusc, a dinosaur; makes him for the first time see light ending a dark universe ... During the last [part of the twentieth] century Italo Calvino ... advanced far beyond his American and English contemporaries. As they continue to look for the place where the spiders make their nests, Calvino has not only found that special place but learned how himself to make fantastic webs of prose to which all things adhere' - Gore Vidal, New York Review of Books
From the Inside Flap “It’s a joy to have all the cosmicomics within one cover . . . Their topics are exhilaratingly immense, the uttermost reaches of space and time, into which warmth and humor enter through all kinds of gaps, quirks, and tricks. Calvino's light, dry, clear prose dances over the light years . . . A landmark in fiction, the work of a master.” — Ursula K. Le Guin, GuardianIn Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth’s first dawn. These dazzling stories cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these beloved tales relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world.Written between the 1960s and the 1980s, the cosmicomics were pivotal in the development of Calvino’s experimental style. The Complete Cosmicomics brings together in one volume all thirty-four of these deft, enchanting stories for the first time in English— including seven never before published in this country. This definitive collection reconfirms the cosmicomics as an enduring literary achievement.
From the Back Cover “We were peering into this darkness, criss-crossed with voices, when the change took place: the only real, great change I’ve ever happened to witness, and compared to it the rest is nothing.” — from The Complete Cosmicomics Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe. Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these thirty-four dazzling stories — collected here in one definitive anthology — relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world. They are an indelible (and unfailingly delightful) literary achievement. “Nimble and often hilarious . . . Trying to describe such a diverse and entertaining mix, I have to admit, just as Calvino does so often, that my words fail here, too. There’s no way I — or anyone, really — can muster enough of them to quite capture the magic of these stories . . . Read this book, please.” — Colin Dwyer, NPRItalo Calvino (1923–1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century’s greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are the novels If on a winter’s night a traveler and The Baron in the Trees, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His work has been translated into dozens of languages.
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful. At last By Crowley Fan At the time of this writing you still have to order this from amazon.co.uk and pay the shipping fees, as American copyrights have not been ironed out. If that's too expensive, most of the contents are available elsewhere, in the HBJ and Vintage volumes called Cosmicomics, T Zero, and Numbers in the Dark. Some of the newly translated stories were published in Spring '09 in Harpers and (I think) The New York Times. These new stories are one main selling point of the collection; the other is the ability to access them all finally together.The "cosmicomic" stories are some of the best, most fun, most wildly fantastical and least describable works by the great Italo Calvino, and this is the much belated first English collection of them. They were his running start toward Invisible Cities, one of the finest books of the century--and he wrote several more after to cool down. Like those city fables, the various cosmicomics tend to retell a single story of a lost opportunity, usually lost love. The heart of Calvino's genius was always to keep this situation paradoxically upbeat, perhaps by implying that the very immensities we always find ourselves losing bespeak a world overflowing with worlds. There will be others, different from but not always unlike the ones we miss. Including this one last batch by Calvino.
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful. American reprint of UK edition that was long overdue By Mohe The complete version of Calvino's Cosmocomics in English translation no longer has to be imported from UK and this is a better bound copy of the UK edition of 2010, right down to the pagination.The translation is fluid and literary, there are a few places where things get a little confused but these are vanishingly rare, and they are hard to spot because of the unreliable narrator.As to the work itself, it is a lesser Calvino work overall, though several of the stories are absolutely first class, others are quite draggy, or even, rarely, completely incoherent. The main problem is that Calvino is writing something that is a sort of flippant riff on the work of Borges but at ten times the length. Some stories, which run around 10+ pages, are perfect, but others just sort of agonizingly beat the concept to death, most however are in between. As to the stories themselves they are cheeky and irreverent while often coming very close to profundity. As an earth scientist they are an interesting view into the scientific ideas still current in the late 60s and though many are outdated, and some even never reputable at all, they are amusingly handled. Occasionally the ridiculousness of the idea's implication is made far more apparent than the scientific literature ever was, so to me this was an added bonus.For the most part these stories are very much of their time, the 60s and 70s, which can rob the, peculiarly of some of heir immediacy. On the whole I enjoyed them, but it was not infrequent that I wanted to abandon a particular story. In short this is a nice collection, if you have already read Calvino and liked him you will enjoy these, but they are not a particularily good introduction to him.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Wonderful, witty, human stories By Aaron C. Brown Like some other reviewers, I have stumbled upon some of the stories in this collection over many years, and found them delightful and original. I consider them to be science fiction short stories rather than postwar experimental literature, fitting squarely in the playful, absurdist tradition of authors like Robert Sheckley and Paul di Filippo, or even Philip K. Dick on one of his sunnier days.Each story begins with a scientific fact or hypothesis, usually a recent one at the time the story was written. The author uses it as a springboard for poetic comic imaginings. Although the characters are not human, in fact in many cases their nature is not even described, the comedy is strictly humanist. These are tales of curiosity, wonder, romance and foibles. There is a deep respect for the science even when it is twisted in fantastic ways. The author strives to find some human-scale meaning to the ideas. Like a cartoon in which a character runs over a cliff but only begins to fall when he realizes there is no ground below him, the stories show us a subjective reality we can recognize, while maintaining the logic of physics in the end.After reading the complete collection through, I am forced to admit that I prefer them one at a time, coming unexpectedly. They are wonderfully stimulating diversions, but they don't build to anything larger. There is significant overlap among the stories, similar portions retold, the same themes revisited with only minor differences. By all means get this book, but I recommend reading one story a week rather than reading them one after the other. By the way, if you enjoy reading aloud, these are excellent choices except for the unpronounceable names. I have found some children really love them, although most do not.I did dislike the introduction. Its author, who also translated some of the stories and I think edited the collection, dismisses the idea that these stories qualify as science fiction because that genre, "usually dealt with a dystopian future, with human protagonists pitted against other forces and creatures,. . .[while] cosmicomic tales were set mostly in the remote past, at the dawn of the universe, with a protagonist, Qfwfq, who was clearly not always human." I suspect the statement is considering only 1950s drive-in science fiction movies, and even among those films you can find utopian, dystopian and anytopian stories in the future, the past, the present or often without reference to human time lines. There are human on human, human on non-human and pure non-human stories. It's not even accurate about cosmicomic stories. Some are at the dawn of the universe but most are more recent (although almost all either in the past or unrelated to human time lines). Qfwfg is seldom biologically human but usually psychologically human. In fact, one way to think about a number of the stories is they imagine the closest possible approximation to humanity that could have observed directly the events that we know about only indirectly through science.I recommend these stories highly, but I personally gained little from having them in a complete edition with introduction.
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