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Pros
Italo calvino's cosmicomics is a thought-provoking series of stories that make you question the concept of truth. Despite the potential for solemn grandeur, calvino's characters come across with full measure of human cupidity and silliness.
Italo calvino's cosmicomics offers metamorphoses that transcend our earthbound existence. It is his first collection of stories told by a super-natural creature where we hear the experiential side of science concepts like the big bang and the speed of... Read More
Cosmicomics teaches its reader while remaining playful. He does things with language and storytelling that no one else does. It enchants, it engages, it bewilders.
Cons
This attempt to give pseudo-scientific explanations/ settings to all the stories, spoils the general fable-like literary beauty and charm. It is sad to see good literature being wrecked by bad science.
Highlights
Quality
I absolutely fell in love with the main character of this book
The aquatic uncle deals with the problem of the older generation and also has an ending that questions if it is worth being old... Read More
Twelve stories of varying quality toldnot bya whale or a woodwormbut by a character who is asold as creation
The narrator deals with the conflict of a bad first impression but being unable to correct it and how his overcompensation ofte... Read More
Price
It is worth the price of the book itself
Cosmicomics is just what brought me to amazon to look for more of italo calvino
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Calvino begins each story with an established scientific conjecture thereafter placing an anthropomorphic and wildly fictitious annotation of the universe at various stages or for lack of a better word times
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It is definitely not a novel in as much as there is not a set beginning middle climax and denouement nor one or more characters that we follow throughout the book in a series of adventures and incidents
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While the book contains a dozen short stories with a common link that may be described as science fiction i would not call it strictly a book of this genre
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Cosmicomics may instead be described as a series of beautifully and imaginatively written poetic fables that defy time and space
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They may be floating around in space chasing each other or being chased at one and the same time
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And despite the potential for solemn grandeur calvinos characters come across with full measure of human cupidity and silliness
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Its almost as if stanislaw lem tried to imitate borges after reading uncle vanya
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The first tale for me was the most mind boggling
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