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A review by cattytrona
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
4.0
Felt at various points like being read a bedtime story/attending the kind of performed lecture where the lecturer gesticulates and like, strides up and down/being told obvious lies by a confident 6 year old boy. Rarely felt like a book.
I love the layers of impossible, contridictory past this imagines: at least three moons, and a whole history of advanced cities, tucked into the pages of the earth.
The standout stories, for me
I love the layers of impossible, contridictory past this imagines: at least three moons, and a whole history of advanced cities, tucked into the pages of the earth.
The standout stories, for me
- 'The Light-Years' and 'The Dinosaurs' - Felt like the best examples, focused and human, of the Cosmicomic form. The ones to refresh myself on.
- 'The Meteorites' and 'Solar Storm' - Not my favourite in terms of plotting, but some outstanding worldimagining.
- 'The Night Driver' - Easily the most rewarding of what I thought of as the logic puzzles stories, from t zero. Really liked this as a very specific mediation on relationships.
Not sure I would return to this complete edition - there's a lot of stories, there's a lot of book, and without the momentum of plot to pull me through, I stopped and started. But in fragments, yes.