The definitive edition of Calvino’s cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories—including some never before translated—in one volume for the first timeIn Italo Calvino’s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to Earth’s first dawn. Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scientific concepts to our common sensory, emotional, human world.Now, The Complete Cosmicomics brings together all of the cosmicomic stories for the first time. Containing works previously published in Cosmicomics, t zero, and Numbers in the Dark, this single volume also includes seven previously uncollected stories, four of which have never been published in translation in the United States. This “complete and definitive collection” (Evening Standard) reconfirms the cosmicomics as a crowning literary achievement and makes them available to new generations of readers.“It’s a joy to have all the cosmicomics within one cover . . . A landmark in fiction, the work of a master.”—Ursula K. Le Guin, Guardian

Roberto della Griva, a seventeenth-century nobleman, finds himself stuck upon a ship from which he cannot escape, so he explores the ship and reminisces about the various chapters and experiences of his life. Reprint. NYT.

It is 1204 and Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death and proceeds to tell his own fantastical story.

Product Description: HISTORY was written nearly 3 decades after Morante spent a year hiding from the Germans in remote farming villages in the mountains south of Rome. There she witnessed the full impact of the war and first formed the ambition to write an account of what history does when it reaches the realm of ordinary people struggling for life and bread...read more

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Collects essays concerning Puccini's life and works and includes articles on each of the composer's operas (view table of contents)

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Product Description: In this brilliant work, Roberto Calasso cracks the code of what Baudelaire named the Modern--the increasingly murderous period from the French Revolution to the end of World War II. From Talleyrand's France and the legendary African city of Kasch, to Lenin's Russia and the killing fields of Cambodia, Calasso leads us along an enticing maze of mythology, literature, art, and science to the pulsing heart of civilization, where he deciphers the deepest secrets of history...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Offers essays on militarism, computerese, art, bureaucracy, health, airplane food, bad coffee, taxi drivers, fax machines, porno films, football fans, and other topics

Offers essays on militarism, computerese, art, bureaucracy, health, airplane food, bad coffee, taxi drivers, fax machines, porno films, football fans, and other topics

Presenting three stories, this work explores the sensory aptitudes of the body in taste, hearing and smell.

Tommaso, a homosexual informer living in the slums of Rome, becomes attracted to the Neo-Fascist movement of postwar Italy

When Vitangelo Moscardo's wife tells him his nose is tilted to one side, he becomes obsessed with the fact that each person sees him differently, and with trying to make other people see him only as the person he wants them to see

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The life of Joseph the carpenter is told by his old friend and servant, Socrates, including his youth in Bethlehem and move to Nazareth, his courtship and marriage to Maria, the birth of her child in Bethlehem and the childhood of Jesus