As it relates to our sensibility today, the supernatural element at the heart of these stories always appears freighted with meaning, like the revolt of the unconscious, the repressed, the forgotten. For us, it is also one of the most significant. Master storyteller himself, Calvino has contributed an informative introduction to the collection, and an engaging prГ©cis to each story.ДЄs Calvino writes in Fantastic Tales, which traces the genre from its roots in German Romanticism to the ghost stories of Henry James: 'The fantastic tale is one of the most characteristic products of nineteenth-century narrative. Le Guin, GuardianД¬ompiled by Italo Calvino, one of the essential writers of the twentieth century (and editor of the best-selling Italian Folktales), Fantastic Tales is a rich and wide-ranging collection of twenty-six classic, uncanny tales from the nineteenth century written by an intriguing panoply of European and American authors. A landmark in fiction, the work of a master.вЂќ-Ursula K. вЂњItвЂ™s a joy to have all the cosmicomics within one cover. 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.В This вЂњcomplete and definitive collectionвЂќ (Evening Standard) reconfirms the cosmicomics as a crowning literary achievement and makes them available to new generations of readers. Now, The Complete Cosmicomics brings together all of the cosmicomic stories for the first time.

Exploring natural phenomena and the origins of the universe, these beloved tales relate complex scientific concepts to our common sensory, emotional, human world. In Italo CalvinoвЂ™s cosmicomics, primordial beings cavort on the nearby surface of the moon, play marbles with atoms, and bear ecstatic witness to EarthвЂ™s first dawn. The definitive edition of CalvinoвЂ™s cosmicomics, bringing together all of these enchanting stories-including some never before translated-in one volume for the first time

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