The Complete Cosmicomics

The Complete Cosmicomics

First English edition
Author Italo Calvino
Translator William Weaver
Martin McLaughlin
Tim Parks
Country Italy (first)
Language Italian (first)
Genre Science fiction short stories
Publisher Penguin Books (UK)
Publication date
May 2009
Media type Print (hardcover & paperback)
ISBN 978-1-84614-165-2

The Complete Cosmicomics is a 2009 book that collects almost all[1] of the Cosmicomic stories by Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino.

The single volume collection includes the following:

Translator Martin McLaughlin explains the origins of the seven new stories in his introduction to The Complete Cosmicomics:

A little-known third collection – La memoria del mondo e altre storie cosmicomiche ("World Memory and Other Cosmicomic Stories") (1968), a volume not available commercially in Italy – offered 20 fictions in all, 12 from the previous two collections [Cosmicomics and t zero] and eight new pieces (seven of these new items are translated here for the first time into English; the other new 1968 tale, the title story, was translated by Tim Parks as "World Memory" in the 1992 volume Numbers in the Dark).

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Notes

  1. "Almost all" according to The Village Voice (see References); however, the introduction by McLaughlin claims that the book contains all the Cosmicomics.


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