![]() Acclaimed author Robert Pogue Harrison, the Rosina Pierotti Professor of Italian Literature, will moderate the panel, with award-winning novelist Tobias Wolff, the Ward W. 27, at Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center. But for the generations of readers swept away with the wit and magic of these loosely linked stories, that's part of the fun.Ĭosmicomics will be discussed at the popular "Another Look" book club, at 7:30 p.m. Clearly, Italo Calvino (1923-1985) one of the greatest European writers of the last century, took a mountain of artistic license when he published his science-based fantasies, Cosmicomics, in 1965. The moon, at the dawn of time when it was closest to the earth, was still at least 12,000 miles away. All you had to do was row out to it in a boat and, when you were underneath, prop a ladder against her and scramble up." So begins the improbable tale of a man in love with the moon, and the woman in love with him, at a time when the moon was so close to the earth you could … 27 through Stanford's "Another Look" book club. Author Italo Calvino's whimsical view of the universe will be explored Oct.
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