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Cosmicomics is a 1965 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. Each story is narrated by an ageless, shape-shifting entity named Qfwfq, who recounts his experiences during the formation of the universe, the extinction of the dinosaurs, and other cosmic events. The stories blend s...
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Major Calvino collection, highly admired for imaginative science-philosophy fusion, playful and formally distinctive.
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The Baron in the Trees is a 1957 novel by Italian author Italo Calvino. The protagonist, Cosimo Piovasco di Rondò, is a young baron in eighteenth-century Liguria who refuses to eat a dinner of snails and climbs a tree, vowing never to touch the ground again. Despite his arboreal existence, Cosimo fu...
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Beloved Calvino novel, elegant allegory of freedom, strong critical reputation and broad reader appeal.
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The Path to the Spiders' Nests is Italo Calvino's 1947 debut novel, set in Liguria during the Italian Resistance and German occupation. It follows Pin, a streetwise boy who steals a pistol and becomes involved with a group of partisan fighters, viewing warfare and adult loyalties through a child's l...
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Important Calvino debut and Resistance novel; admired but generally considered less brilliant than his mature experimental fiction.
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a postmodern novel written by Italian author Italo Calvino and published in 1979. The book is structured with alternating chapters written in the second person, addressing "the Reader," who is attempting to read a novel that keeps getting interrupted. Between the...
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