Numbers in the Dark: And Other Stories

by Italo Calvino

Book Overview

"Everybody telephones everybody at every possible moment, and nobody can speak to anybody . . . Distance has been the warp that supports the weft of every love story." -- from Numbers in the Dark... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679743537
• ISBN13: 9780679743538
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.6" x 5.2"

Customer Reviews

Great book, mediocre kindle iPad edition

This is a wonderful collection of little gems. Unfortunately the Kindle to iPad edition is filled with "typos"--- I suppose representing failure of the OCR used to create the file?

Stories, Dialogues and Fables from a Master Story Teller

Contents Include: Preface by Esther Calvino FABLES AND STORIES: 1943 - 1958 * The Man Who Shouted Teresa * The Flash * Making Do * Dry River * Conscience * Solidarity * The Black Sheep * Good for Nothing * Like a Flight of Ducks * Love Far from Home * Wind in a City * The Lost Regiment * Enemy Eyes * A General in the Library * The Workshop Hen * Numbers in the Dark * The Queen's Necklace * Becalmed in the Antilles * The Tribe with Its Eyes on the Sky * Nocturnal Soliloquy of a Scottish Nobleman * A Beautiful March Day TALES AND DIALOGUES 1968-1984 * World Memory * Beheading the Heads * The Burning of the Abominable House * The Petrol Pump * Neanderthal Man * Montezuma * Before You Say 'Hello' * Glaciation * The Call of the Water * The Mirror, the Target * The Other Eurydice * The Memoirs of Casanova * Henry Ford * The Last Channel * Implosion * Nothing and Not Much

Far out.

If you see polka dots as round stripes (as I do) then this collection will appeal to you. This guy has a really off beat take on the world.

product of a brilliant mind

this engaging collection of stories shows calvino's versatility.playfully absurd fables, mind-bending exercises in combinatorics, "interviews" with somewhat deranged historical figures, glaciation interrupting a romantic encounter, an encylopedia of all human knowledge... these ideas and more are all expressed with humor, economy and wonderful style.