Calvino's Fictions: Cogito and Cosmos

by Kathryn Hume

Partisan fighting, air pollution, science, gold-leafed tarot cards, novelistic genres: Calvino's fiction encompasses a wide variety of subjects. In this book Kathryn Hume analyzes the "unmistakable accent" that unites his disparate creations and identifies Calvino's fundamental imaginative structures: his metaphysic of particles and flux, his granular concept of reality, his many images of engulfment, his models and microcosms, tracing the metamorphoses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198151845
• ISBN13: 9780198151845
• Release Date: August 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.8"