T zero

T zero

The book "t zero" ("Ti con zero") is a 1967 collection of short stories by Italian author Italo Calvino. The title story is based on a particularly uncertain moment in the life of a lion hunter. This second in time, "t0" , is considered by the hunter against known previous seconds ("t-1" , "t-2" , ...) and hypothetical future seconds ("t1" , "t2" , ...)

"Qfwfq" (an always extant being introduced in "Cosmicomics") narrates the first set of stories in the collection, which take a scientific fact, and build a wonderfully imaginative story around it. Other stories in the book diverge to a greater or lesser degree from this scientific theme. The final story in the collection is a postmodern pastiche of Alexandre Dumas' "The Count of Monte Cristo".

References

* Italo Calvino. "t zero" (Translated from the Italian by William Weaver). New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. ISBN 0-15-692400-5


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