โ Scribed by Calvino, Italo
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story. from Numbers in the Dark
Written between 1943 and 1984, the stories in Numbers in the Dark span the career of one of fictions modern masters: from Italo Calvinos earliest fables, to tales informed by life in World War IIera Italy, to the delightful experimentation that would define his later work. Here are speculativestories on life in the digital age, genre-bending wonders, and impossible interviews with the likes of Montezuma and a Neanderthal. Deftly translated by Tim Parks, Numbers in the Dark shows off Calvinos lifelong gift for subtle humor and shimmering philosophical insight.
Numbers in the Dark is a glorious grab-bag . . . [with] enough gems from every phase in Calvinos career to make it feel indispensable. Seattle Times
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Formats : EPUB
ISBN : 9780544146426
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