Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories
by Italo Calvino
2020-04-20 01:11:24
Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories
by Italo Calvino
2020-04-20 01:11:24
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 i...
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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 fiction''s modern masters: from Italo Calvino''s earliest fables, to tales informed by life in World War II-era Italy, to the delightful experimentation that would define his later work. Here are speculative stories 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 Calvino''s 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 Calvino''s career to make it feel indispensable." - Seattle Times "
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