Download or read book Calvino's Fictions written by Kathryn Hume and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the novels and stories. The cosmicomical tales, with their focus on science, are seen as crucial to the development of the symbolic mindscapes that made Calvino a major international writer. He died before arriving at any satisfactory solution to the problems of relating the 'I' to the 'not-I', but Hume derives from his later works a philosophy based on the creation of likenesses, of internal microcosms that permit us to mirror the macrocosm. These interior.