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Chargement... Cosmicomics (1965)par Italo Calvino (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreCosmicomics par Italo Calvino (1965)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Qwfwq personifies nebular matter, or tiny amoebas, or mathematical concepts to reveal certain emotional truths. In the first story some characters are caught halfway in between the gravitational pulls of the earth and the moon and must literally chose between two worlds. In another a mollusk possesses as rich a sensory and poetic internal life as anyone else because he can intuit the world around him through the contents of the ocean secretions he consumes. I felt like Qwfwq was less a trillion-year-old shapeshifter and more an old man full of tall tales. So when you brought up a fact in your science textbook like time and space itself is curved, he'll respond with "not just curved but notched and pocketed, one time me and a beautiful woman were free-falling through empty space and we landed in one of those pockets and let me tell you things got steamy in there!" Which brings me to the best joke about Cosmicomics: how horny old Qwfwq is. He's been around for trillions of years and witnessed godlike perspectives but a good majority of these stories are about his attempts to win over another proto-amphibiod, or chunk of stellar dust, or she-mollusk who is both inexplicably female and the most beautiful thing in the galaxy. Firstly these little hardback Penguin editions are lovely, a great size, bright colours, lovely designs. I kind of want them all. And what a collection this is, quirky stories of the creation and history of the universe through the eyes of Qfwfq, an unpronounceable being who seemingly exists throughout all of time and space to tell us stories. We have all of matter co-existing in a single point before the big bang, we have an awkward uncle refusing to evolve onto the land with the rest of his family, a mollusc inventing a spiral shell to impress another. The stories are strange, surreal and lots of fun with their mixture of science and emotion. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Dans ces récits, publiés à partir de 1964, Italo Calvino s'était assigné la tâche d'alléger et de transmettre les concepts ardus de la science contemporaine, parvenant à élaborer un genre hybride, plus proche des mythes que de la science-fiction. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Sometimes the overall effect is original, fun and rich. Other times the effect is stilted, distant, a bit off putting. In any case a unique experiment in fiction. ( )