Numbers in the dark
and other stories
1st American ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Parks, Tim. - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Pantheon Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
69,000 words, Guess
Page Count
276 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL791821M
- ISBN-100679442057
- OCLC Control Number32778461
- OCLC Control Numbernumbersindarkoth00calv
- Library of Congress Control Number95024359
and 2 more
- Goodreads534909
- LibraryThing18072
Classifications
- DDC853/.914
- LCCPQ4809.A45 P713 1995
Description
For the first time in paperback--a volume of thirty-seven diabolically inventive stories, fables, and "impossible interviews" from one of the great fantasists of the 20th century, displaying the full breadth of his vision and wit. Written between 1943 and 1984 and masterfully translated by Tim Parks, the fictions in Numbers in the Dark display all of Calvino's dazzling gifts: whimsy and horror, exuberance of style, and a cheerful grasp of the absurdities of the human condition.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Description
Several dozen stories by the late Italian writer. In Nothing and Not Much, a creature which witnessed the birth of the world describes the event, Henry Ford is an analysis of a captain of capitalism, and in Beheading the Heads, politicians are regularly executed to keep them on their toes.
Subjects
Other Editions
- Numbers in the dark: and other stories
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