Numbers in the Dark

Italo Calvino, Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks , Martin McLaughlin

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English

Penguin
06 July 2009

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

New to Penguin Modern Classics

Numbers in the Dark is a collection of short stories covering the length of Italo Calvino's extraordinary writing career, from when he was a teenager to shortly before his death. They include witty allegories and wise fables; a town where everything has been forbidden apart from the game of tip-cat; a pitiable tribe watching the flight paths of guided missiles from outside their mud huts; a computer programmer considering the possible sequence of a series of brutal acts; and dialogues with Henry Ford, a Neanderthal and the gloomy, overthrown Montezuma ...

By: Italo Calvino
Revised by: Martin McLaughlin
Translated by: Tim Parks, Martin McLaughlin, Patrick Creagh
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 217g
ISBN: 9780141189741
ISBN 10: 0141189746
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 06 July 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. He died in Siena in 1985. Tim Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, studied at Cambridge and Harvard, and moved to Italy in 1980, where he lectures on literary translation in Milan. His translations from the Italian include works by Alberto Moravia, Italo Calvino, Roberto Calasso and Antonio Tabucchi. His account of provincial life in Italy, Italian Neighbours, was an international bestseller.

Reviews for Numbers in the Dark

'The author's command of detail and his fine, inventive imagination, his ability to turn ideas upside down and inside out, his awareness of the comic capacity of everyday life, are always ready to surprise and delight.' Literary Review