The Complete Cosmicomics - Couverture rigide

Calvino, Italo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0544146441 ISBN 13 : 9780544146440

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014

Synopsis

The definitive edition of Calvino's cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories--including some never before translated--in one volume for the first timeIn 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. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scientific concepts to our common sensory, emotional, human world.Now, "The Complete Cosmicomics" brings together all of the cosmicomic stories for the first time. Containing works previously published in "Cosmicomics," "t zero," and "Numbers in the Dark," this single volume also includes seven previously uncollected stories, four of which have never been published in translation in the United States. This "complete and definitive collection" ("Evening Standard") reconfirms the cosmicomics as a crowning literary achievement and makes them available to new generations of readers."It's a joy to have all the cosmicomics within one cover . . . A landmark in fiction, the work of a master."--Ursula K. Le Guin, "Guardian"

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Praise for Italo Calvino and The Complete Cosmicomics  "It's a joy to have all the Cosmicomics within one cover . . . A landmark in fiction, the work of a master." — Ursula K. Le Guin, Guardian (London)  "The complete and definitive collection . . . A masterpiece." — Gilbert Adair, Evening Standard (London)  "If you have never read Cosmicomics, you have before you . . . the most joyful reading experience of your life." — Salman Rushdie  "Architect of scrupulously imagined, apparently fantastic, insidiously plausible worlds, Calvino occupies a literary space somewhere east of Jorge Luis Borges and west of Vladimir Nabokov. Borges dreams of libraries and Nabokov texts and commentaries, but Calvino pictures acres of vulnerable print, gathered into volumes but constantly menaced with dispersion or vertiginous error." — Michael Wood, New York Times  "Calvino has performed a valuable service to his own culture and, by extension, to our own." — Anthony Burgess   "Like Jorge Luis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Italo Calvino dreams perfect dreams for us . . . Of the three, Calvino is the sunniest, the most variously and benignly curious about the human truth." — John Updike

"In story after story, Calvino displays the same singular talent for wresting the profound from the absurd...One of the joys of the collection is the chance to watch his evolution as a writer — from the purebred fantasy of his early years to the brain-wrinkling experiments of his later, more famous novels...A diverse and entertaining mix...Read this book, please." --NPR.org "A major event in the English language to give even more evidence why the great Italian post-modern master was among the greatest of writers in his sadly truncated lifetime...marvelous, poetic, hilarious, sublime and wholly original tales which could please the brightest and most advanced students of literary post-modernism as well as the brightest and most advanced of pubescent readers...Over the course of years from the time of their invention, the tales first occasioned by 'Cosmicomics' became among the greatest achievements of a writer who couldn’t possibly have been more deserving of our era’s most fabled literary award." --Buffalo News "Calvino’s stories offer us beauty and hilarity while imparting concepts from the hard sciences...This exuberant and humorous collection will appeal to a cross section of readers, including lovers of speculative fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction." --Library Journal  

"A major event in the English language to give even more evidence why the great Italian post-modern master was among the greatest of writers in his sadly truncated lifetime...marvelous, poetic, hilarious, sublime and wholly original tales which could please the brightest and most advanced students of literary post-modernism as well as the brightest and most advanced of pubescent readers...Over the course of years from the time of their invention, the tales first occasioned by 'Cosmicomics' became among the greatest achievements of a writer who couldn’t possibly have been more deserving of our era’s most fabled literary award." --Buffalo News "Calvino’s stories offer us beauty and hilarity while imparting concepts from the hard sciences...This exuberant and humorous collection will appeal to a cross section of readers, including lovers of speculative fiction, fantasy, and literary fiction." --Library Journal  

Biographie de l'auteur :

Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he is a Fellow of Magdalen College. He is the English translator of Umberto Eco and Italo Calvino among many others.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0544146441
• ISBN 13: 9780544146440
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 432