| The Complete Cosmicomics | |
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1st edition |
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| Author(s) | Italo Calvino |
| Translator | William Weaver Martin McLaughlin Tim Parks |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Penguin Books (UK) |
| Publication date | May 2009 |
| ISBN | 1846141656 978-1846141652 |
The Complete Cosmicomics is a 2009 book that collects almost all[1] of the Cosmicomic stories by Italian postmodern writer Italo Calvino. The book is not currently available in the United States.
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:
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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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