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Numbers in the Dark

Numbers in the Dark( )
Author: Calvino, Italo
Translator: Parks, Tim
Creagh, Patrick
McLaughlin, Martin
Weaver, William
ISBN:978-0-14-118974-1
Publication Date:Jul 2009
Publisher:Penguin Books, Limited
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $22.99
Book Description:

Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts; and...
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Book Details
Pages:288
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Literary
Fiction / Fantasy / Collections & Anthologies
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):12.9 x 19.8 x 1.6 cm
Book Weight:0.22 Kilograms
Author Biography
Calvino, Italo (Author)
Italo Calvino 1923-1984

Novelist and short story writer Italo Calvino was born in Cuba on October 15, 1923, and grew up in Italy, graduating from the University of Turin in 1947. He is remembered for his distinctive style of fables. Much of his first work was political, including Il Sentiero dei Nidi di Ragno (The Path of the Nest Spiders, 1947), considered one of the main novels of neorealism.

In the 1950s, Calvino began to explore fantasy and myth as extensions of realism. Il Visconte Dimezzato (The Cloven Knight, 1952), concerns a knight split in two in combat who continues to live on as two separates, one good and one bad, deprived of the link which made them a moral whole. In Il Barone Rampante (Baron in the Trees, 1957), a boy takes to the trees to avoid eating snail soup and lives an entire, fulfilled life without ever coming back down.

Calvino was awarded an honorary degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1984 and died in 1985, following a cerebral hemorrhage. At the time of his death, he was the most translated contemporary Italian writer and a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature.

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