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Book Description
Enchanting stories about the evolution of the universe, with characters that are fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures. “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 Continue
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thescotsman published on Mon, 27 Sep 2010
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The unsurpassed poet of creation
In my favourite of Italo Calvino's books, Mr Palomar, the eponymous hero goes to look at the night sky through a telescope. He has various difficulties. For a start, he cannot decide whether to focus on the stars with his spectacles off or on: off an ... (read full critics)
guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010
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- English Books
- Paperback 168 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0156226006
- ISBN-13: 9780156226004
- Publisher: Harvest Books
- Pub date: Oct 04, 1976
- Dimensions: 1290 mm x 839 mm x 65 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Terje 
Book review: The Complete Cosmicomics, by Italo Calvino
ITALO CALVINO (1923-1985) WAS the most inventive European novelist of his time. He was born in Cuba, brought up in San Remo on the Ligurian coast, took part in the anti-Fascist Resistance, and, after university, became a journalist before his first n ... (read full critics)