
'Time is a catastrophe, perpetual and irreversible.' Science and fiction interweave delightfully in these playful Cosmicomic short stories. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, …

Em seu romance de estréia, publicado em 1947, Italo Calvino ainda não é o autor de narrativas repletas de fábula e fantasia como O visconde partido ao meio e Palomar . Em A trilha dos ninhos de aranha , ele presta tributo ao neo-realismo que emergiu na Itália desolada depois da Segunda Guerra. Como todos os que …

t zero is a 1967 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. The title story is based on a particularly uncertain moment in the life of a lion hunter. This second in time, t₀, is considered by the hunter against known previous seconds and hypothetical future seconds "Qfwfq" narrates the first set of …

Um pais onde os chefes politicos sao decapitados ao final de seu mandato. O campones que foi condecorado porque, na guerra, matou os inimigos da patria, mas recebeu a pena de morte porque, na paz, matou o inimigo da aldeia. O homem que nunca soube dar laco no sapato. Um arquivo em que estao fichados todos os …

In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book