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Title	:	Mr Palomar
Author	:	Italo Calvino
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 128 pages
Published	:	July 11th 1994 by Vintage Classics (first published November 1983)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. Italian Literature. Literature. Short Stories. Cultural. Italy

Mr Palomar

Italo Calvino

Paperback | Pages: 128 pages

Rating: 3.9 | 5439 Users | 378 Reviews

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Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is simply seeking knowledge; 'it is only after you have come to know the surface of things that you can venture to seek what is underneath'. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh.

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Original Title:	Palomar
ISBN:	0099430878 (ISBN13: 9780099430872)
Edition Language:	English

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Though he believes that "the world can very well do without him," the res cogitans that inhabits this text (not much of a narrative and accordingly not properly a narrator) investigates the world available to him ("the surface of things is inexhaustible" or so), loathing to waste those surfaces that the world sets before him and attempting to reduce complexity to simplicity, as he asserts.Plenty of amusing observations and philosophical interest. Perhaps however not entirely successful.

Nobody looks at the moon in the afternoonAnd this is the moment when it would most require our attentionSince its existence is still in doubtThe moon is the most changeable body in the visible universeAnd the most regular in its complicated habitsWho fear it is too beautiful to be truePerhaps the first rule I must impose on myself is this: Stick to what I see[Jupiter] Effects of immense atmospheric storms are translated into a calm, orderly patternWhat can be more stable than nothingnessThis

The thought of a time outside our experience is intolerable. Had I met someone like Mr. Palomar before reading this book, Id have easily passed him off as just another middle aged man on the verge of senility with nothing better to do with his time or at the most a mad wannabe scientist who realized about his true calling when it was too late with no one interested about his observations or findings. But trust Mr. Calvino when it comes to make seemingly weak characters strong and one of the

Calvino is my favourite writer and this was one of his last books. It's not an easy read. There is no 'story' as such. Rather it is a series of meditations that are as lyrical as they are rigorous and profound. Like the famous and brilliant Invisible Cities it is a book that requires more than one reading. Calvino is the master of paradox and contradiction and his ideas are genuinely original.



I had to read this for university and I must say I quite enjoyed it. The book is composed by a variety of observations and reflections made by the protagonist Palomar. Some of them definitely offered me some insightful and interesting topics to think about.Even though I prefer other works by Calvino, I still recommend this book.

120119: this is the first calvino i read. thus the first avant-garde, first experimental, first oulipo, first anything other than usual sort of modern novel. i think i was like 14. i remember it on the first floor of the central city library, in some section i have never been, and maybe i get because it is on a low shelf as i sat on the floor in winter sunlight... i am dissatisfied with what seemed to be usual SF and just drifting into the more literary end, away from big guns, apocalypse,