The Complete Cosmicomics - Italo Calvino

Written by Italo Calvino
Read by Jefferson Mays
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Italo Calvino’s beloved cosmicomics cross planets and traverse galaxies, speed up time or slow it down to the particles of an instant. Through the eyes of an ageless guide named Qfwfq, Calvino explores natural phenomena and tells the story of the origins of the universe.

Poignant, fantastical, and wise, these 34 dazzling stories - collected here in one definitive anthology - relate complex scientific and mathematical concepts to our everyday world. They are an indelible (and unfailingly delightful) literary achievement.

Translations of “The Distance of the Moon”, “At Daybreak”, “A Sign in Space”, “All at One Point”, “Without Colours”, “Games Without End”, “The Aquatic Uncle”, “How Much Shall We Bet?”, “The Dinosaurs”, “The Form of Space”, “The Light-Years”, “The Spiral”, “The Soft Moon”, “The Origin of the Birds”, “Crystals”, “Blood, Sea”, “Mitosis”, “Meiosis”, “Death”, “t zero”, “The Chase”, “The Night Driver”, and “The Count of Monte Cristo” - William Weaver, 1968/9

Translations of “World Memory”, “Nothing and Not Much”, “Implosion”, and “The Other Eurydice” - Tim Parks, 1995

Introduction and translations of “The Mushroom Moon”, “The Daughters of the Moon”, “The Meterorites”, “The Stone Sky”, “As Long as the Sun Lasts”, “Solar Storm”, and “Shells and Time” - Martin McLaughlin, 2009

November 7 2017
15 hrs and 9 mins