NUMBERS IN THE DARK: And Other Stories - Hardcover

Calvino, Italo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679442057 ISBN 13: 9780679442059

Publisher: Pantheon, 1995

Synopsis

This collection of diabolically brilliant stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" confirms Calvino's stature as one of the essential writers of the 20th century. Written between 1943 and 1984, these several dozen short stories range over a panoply of concerns--politics, the nature of power, the quest for the truth, and the elusive possiblity of human connection.

About this title

About the Author:

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was born in Cuba, and grew up in San Remo, Italy.  He was a member of the partisan movement during the German occupation of northern Italy in World War II.  The novel that resulted from that experience, published in English as The Path to the Nest of Spiders, won widespread acclaim.  His other works of fiction include the Baron in the Trees, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, Mr. Palomar, The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount, t zero, Under the Jaguar Sun, and The Watcher and Other Stories. His works of nonfiction include Six Memos for the Next Millennium and The Uses of Literature, collections of literary essays, and the anthology Italian Folktales.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Italian

About this edition

• Publisher: Pantheon
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679442057
• ISBN 13: 9780679442059
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 276