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Italo Calvino - T Zero

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The author's second collection of imaginative stories about the evolution of the universe transcends the boundaries of space and time while mixing comedy with higher mathematics.
 

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Classic Calvino

Date of Review:  Dec 14, 2003
Review: This is a collection of short stories by Italian author, Italo Calvino. I believe they were originally written in the 1960s; the translation I have is from 1967-1969.

Part One is 'More of Qfwfq' which includes "The Soft Moon," "The Origin...
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  4.0

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Date of Review:  Feb 27, 2001
The Bottom Line: The book is a delightful challenge.
Review: I borrowed this book from a friend not knowing what to expect. I had never read Italo Calvino before. I was pleasantly surprised. The author constructs his romantic entanglements with women in such a way that it challenges the reader to figures...
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Wonderful imagery and use of words
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Authors Italo Calvino
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  Ashbery, John, New York Times Book Review: "Though T-Zero continues for a while to chronicle the adventures of Qfwfq, there are indications that Calvino has tried to break the snug mold in which the earlier stories were cast....[The first section] is a rerun of 'Cosmicomics'. The second group, 'Priscilla' [still involving Qfwfq], is a mad and dazzling scientific dissertation on the nature of love and death. The third, despite its echoes of Borges, Kafka and the nouveau roman, does have one story, 'The Count of Monte Cristo,' which juggles these influences so skillfully as to recreate them...."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books (October 04, 1976)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.35 lbs.
ISBN: 9780156924009
 

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