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|title=The Complete Cosmicomics
|author=Italo Calvino
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|pages=304
|publisher= Penguin Classics
|date=May 2009
|isbn=978-1846141652
|sort=Complete Cosmicomics
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The protagonist, through whose eyes we glimpse the birth of stars, planets, life forms, the formation of galaxies and the eventual dissipation of the universe itself, relates to us how it felt to nest in nebulae, to drift alone in the vast expanses of space, to ride planets like waves across the cosmos. And yet, impossibly, Calvino manages to retain a certain sensitivity; an unmistakably human sense of tragedy and loss as the comparatively minute dramas of the protagonist run parallel to the all pervasive cosmic narrative.
With two scientists for parents Calvino had an understandable interest in science, and in ''The Cosmicomics'' he contorts complex physics to his own playful ends; describing Qfwfq and an old friend playing marbles with hydrogen atoms or watching in disbelief as the first nebulae condensed into solid matter. It is written in such a way that the reader needs no prior education in such things, in fact, although interesting these details serve only as vessels for the greater point of the novel, that is, Qfwfq himself.
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