- Paperback: 432 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics (Jun 5 2010)
- Language: Unknown
- ISBN-10: 0141189681
- ISBN-13: 978-0141189680
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #171,277 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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At last, Nov 27 2009
By Crowley Fan - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Cosmicomics (Hardcover)
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.
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At Home in Cosmos, April 10 2011
By Dr. Bojan Tunguz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Complete Cosmicomics (Hardcover)
Ever since our ancestors started looking into the night sky, the saw patterns and connections between the stars, moons and planets, and used stories and myths to imbue those patterns with meaning and structure. With the big hindsight of the scientific worldview, all those ancient stories may seem quaint and naïve. And indeed, the advent of modern astronomy and astrophysics has greatly enriched and deepened our understanding of the Cosmos. But these wonderful new insights should not be taken in opposition to our imagination when we stare in the sky. And this is the starting point of Italo Calvino's wonderful book "Cosmicomics." It is in a sense a variation on the theme of Cosmos. Each one of the chapters in the book takes a certain scientific fact about the Cosmos, its evolution and the present state, and turns it into an imaginative story with a deeply personal theme. The main protagonist, whimsically named Qfwfq, is present in many forms throughout history of the Cosmos and he narrates its main events through very personal eyes. Many of the stories are love stories of the most imaginative kind, which is not surprising since Calvino is known and excels at that genre. Overall this is a wonderful book that tries to reestablish a very human face of the Cosmos. I highly recommend it.
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