Italo Calvino: Mr Palomar (1999)
ISBN: 9780099430872
Italo Calvino: Mr Palomar (1999)
ISBN: 9780099430872
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Here, Calvino, probably Italy's leading novelist before he died, focuses a probing eye on one man's attempt to name the parts of his universe, almost as though Mr Palomar were trying to define and explain his own existence.
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ISBN
9780099430872
Author
Italo Calvino
Pages
118
Binding
Soft cover
Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE
Date of publication
1999
Format
Book
Language
English
Here, Calvino, probably Italy's leading novelist before he died, focuses a probing eye on one man's attempt to name the parts of his universe, almost as though Mr Palomar were trying to define and explain his own existence. Where the Palomar telescope points out into space, Mr Palomar points in: walking the beach, visiting the zoo, strolling in his garden. Each brief chapter reads like an exploded haiku, with Mr Palomar reading an universe into the proverbial grain of sand' Time Out