One city, Octavia, is suspended above an abyss with just a net to protect them. The thing is, each city is impossibly imagined.
#Italo calvino the distance of the moon series
It’s told as a series of prose poems, each describing a different city. Invisible Cities is essentially a conversation between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo, with Marco Polo recounting all the cities he’s explored. For me, even though my relationship with science almost derailed my entire education, Calvino’s relationship with science steered me back on what I think is my proper course. At the time of his death, he was Italy’s most-translated writer. A crater on Mercury was actually named after him.
If this seems familiar, it inspired Pixar’s short ‘La Luna.’ĬOSMICOMICS: The Soft Moon | Art By Matt KishĬosmicomics is Calvino’s clearest rethinking of how science works and how people interact to it, but this theme pervades his work. ‘The Distance of the Moon’ tells of a time when the Moon orbited so closely to Earth that people could jump up on it with a ladder. The moments before the big bang becomes the setting for a steamy romance, and the formation of hydrogen atoms becomes a game which two shapeless characters play. For those not yet consumed, one of Calvino’s most famous work, Cosmicomics, takes then-contemporary scientific theories and spins them into fables. It’s a good thing I changed my mind about school if only because that’s where I first got to read Italo Calvino. I told anybody who’d listen college wasn’t for me. I visited one, and decided I didn’t like it. Then, when my friends were visiting college campuses, I didn’t. I just took the test, and then, having done badly the first time, retook it. When the time came to study for the SATs, I didn’t. I’d become too stressed by school to admit I enjoyed it. What followed was ten years of educational angst. I was sat down on the couch, and my mom showed me the letter next to science: “F.” A big fat F. When my fifth grade report card came, my parents looked at it first.
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