t zero Author:Italo Calvino Italo Calvino, the author of Cosmicomics, stretches the possibilities of fiction even further in his second collection of stories about the evolution of the universe. In the opening group of tales, Qfwfq, a protean being as old as the universe and as new as the latest racing car, commutes between a New Jersey and a New York that evade the bounda... more »ries of time. He goes over a precipice into the ocean and recalls his oozy past, and he falls in love with Priscilla -- and into a relationship that sees with contemporary eyes and knows with ancient experience.
The final group of tales demonstrates an exhilarating juggling of time and space, in which the mixture of high comedy and higher mathematics creates entertainment of the highest order.