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Cosmicomics

Italo Calvino

Paperback | Pages: 153 pages

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Title	:	Cosmicomics
Author	:	Italo Calvino
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 153 pages
Published	:	October 4th 1976 by Mariner Books (first published 1965)
Categories	:	Fiction. Short Stories. Fantasy. Science Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Literature

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Italo Calvino's extraordinary imagination and intelligence combine here in an enchanting series of stories about the evolution of the universe. He makes his characters out of mathematical formulae and simple cellular structures. They disport themselves among galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms, and even have a love life.

During the course of these stories Calvino toys with continuous creation, the transformation of matter, and the expanding and contracting reaches of space and time. He succeeds in relating complex scientific concepts to the ordinary reactions of common humanity.

William Weaver's excellent translation won a National Book Award in 1969

“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?”

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Original Title:	Le cosmicomiche
ISBN:	0156226006 (ISBN13: 9780156226004)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Qfwfq
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Translation (1969)

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The Cosmicomics are a set of short stories published in the sixties by Italo Calvino. All of them follow the same structure: it starts with a sentence from a scientific publication, usually about the creation of our universe and planets. And then our narrator Qfwfq tells us he remembers that period in time, and takes us back in time on his train of thought.These stories are dreamy, philosophical and funny at the same time. I think of them as bedtime stories for adults they have the enchanted

Storytelling at its best. I rarely read anything as creative as this, I mean the book's narrator is someone (or something?) called Qfwfq, and other characters in the book include (k)yK, Kgwgk and Mrs. Ph(i)NKѲ! It's a collection of stories about the formation of the universe using scientific terminology and ideas so I guess to fully understand Calvino's genius, some knowledge of science (especially Physics, astronomy and Earth Science) is a good idea.

The concept is simple: take an abstract scientific concept and bring it to life through the art of the short story. Yet what Calvino achieves in Cosmicomics is unparalleled.The collection contains twelve short stories, each beginning with a short statement describing a scientific theory, a dry, explanatory piece of writing that feels like it could've been pulled out of an introductory astronomy (or biology) textbook. For example, the first story, "The Distance of the Moon," begins with the

I have never written any comments here on Goodreads before, and even though there are a lot of masterpieces I really need to pay the proper homage to, I felt the urge to declare in a couple of words my love for Calvino right after closing the Cosmicomiche. Italo has the ability to both let me live again the enthusiasm for the immaginative realities that animated my childhood as a voracious little reader and to impress my more mature, young-adult mind with his crucial innovations, investigations

Twelve dazzling stories from Calvino, where his ambition here was to create a ludic fiction that could reflect complex advances in science without losing his playful nature and sense of magic and lightness. The stories he wrote were direct attempts to assimilate new thinking in cosmology in recognisably human - and comic - dimensions.Calvino prefaces his stories with a fact or hypothesis about the universe, then he moves on to get inside these vast abstractions, with his trademark qualities that

FUCKING MINDFUCK!I became aware of two facts after reading this book-Sometime people can be way over-creative-And sometime this over-creativity can be real pain in the... umm... lets go with rear.So, what is cosmicomics?I may say it is comics of the universe; it is book of twelve short stories, with setting in all across the universe and from time even before big-bang to present day, and telling us the story of evolution of the universe.But that is about something written on the pages of this

Calvino at his most Borgesian, perhaps, playfully mythic yet distilling broad complex theory on art and life from simple (here, astronomical) concepts run to distant, unforeseen extents. For instance, in the one I just finished, the eternal protagonist sees a sign placed on a star 100 million light years away reading I SAW YOU, and realizes it refers to an incident in his own life 200 million years before (time for the light to go out and back). Embarrassed to find that actions he'd hoped had