Ti con zero

I'm a reader who experiences her books, rather strongly, via the location in which they're read -- and I read the majority of this book in one of the most inhospitable places I've ever been (like, if you believe in bad vibes...I think I found their source). Something magic still shone through. I am s Leggi tutto

I've never read Calvino, in fact I never even heard of him until Radiolab devoted a special episode to the reading of his short story 'The Distance Of The Moon' and I immediately fell in love. What strikes me the most - overall about Calvino - is is blending of science and fantasy. He begins his stor Leggi tutto

Unbelievably bad, the worst book I've read since joining Goodreads, and one of the worst books I've read in my life. I got suckered into this one because Invisible Cities is one of my all-time favorites, and because I'd enjoyed The Baron in the Trees and If on a winter's night a traveler well enough Leggi tutto

“Ti con zero” non è fra i libri più noti di Italo Calvino ma non credo affatto sia un’opera da sottovalutare. La penna poliedrica dell’autore si affaccia, questa volta, al mondo della scienza con il difficile ma consueto connubio tra precisione e leggerezza. Attraverso la forma del racconto, in una p Leggi tutto

The first two sections of this book serve as a kind of sequel to Calvino's wonderful "Cosmicomics", narrated again by the amorphous "Qfwfq". Calvino's stories, both in this collection and in "Cosmicomics", somehow manage to simultaneously function as postmodern literary experiments, science lessons, Leggi tutto

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