The complete cosmicomics

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The complete cosmicomics

Italo Calvino ; translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks and William Weaver

(Penguin classics)

Penguin Classics, 2009

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Before the universe began to expand, when all of everything existed in a single point in space, Qfwfq was there. And afterwards - through the millennia, across galaxies and in different, shifting forms - he persisted. He has some stories to tell. A collection of enchanting stories, in revised translation, about the evolution of the universe. The characters, fashioned from mathematical formulae and cellular structures, disport themselves amongst galaxies, experience the solidification of planets, move from aquatic to terrestrial existence, play games with hydrogen atoms, and have time for a love life too. 'Naturally, we were all there, - old Qfwfq said, - where else could we have been? Nobody knew then that there could be space. Or time either: what use did we have for time, packed in there like sardines?'

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  • NCID
    BB05405033
  • ISBN
    • 9781846141652
  • LCCN
    2009483435
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiv, 401 p.
  • Size
    23 cm
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