T Zero

Italo Calvino

Jonathan Cape, 1970 - Science fiction, Italian - 152 pages

What people are saying

Review: Time And The Hunter

User Review  - Mark Rayner - Goodreads

This book is Calvino at his most oblique, weird and science fictional. Worth a read if you're a fan, but if you haven't read any of his other work, start somewhere else: I'd suggest Invisible Cities.

Review: Time And The Hunter

User Review  - Megan - Goodreads

This is what I think of when I think of postmodern. It's never too late to become a linguist, right? Even in translation, these pieces resonated with me as a once upon a time science nerd. If you do ...

About the author

Novelist and short story writer Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923, and grew up in Italy, graduating from the University of Turin in 1947. He is remembered for his distinctive style of fables. Much of his first work was political, including Il Sentiero dei Nidi di Ragno (The Path of the Nest Spiders, 1947), considered one of the main novels of neorealism. In the fifties, Calvino began to explore fantasy and myth as extensions of realism. Il Visconte Dimezzato (The Cloven Knight, 1952), concerns a knight split in two in combat who continues to live on as two separates, one good and one bad, deprived of the link which made them a moral whole. In Il Barone Rampante (Baron in the Trees, 1957), a boy takes to the trees to avoid eating snail soup and lives an entire, fulfilled life without ever coming back down. Calvino was awarded an honorary degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1984 and died in 1985, following a cerebral hemorrhage.

Bibliographic information

• Title: T Zero
• Author: Italo Calvino
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape, 1970
• ISBN: 022461827X, 9780224618274
• Length: 152 pages