Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
Harvest Books (September 22, 1986) | 144 pages | ISBN: 0156627809 | PDF | 160 kb
Mr. Palomar is the title of William Weaver’s English translation of Italo Calvino’s novel Palomar (first published 1983; English translation 1985). In 27 short chapters, arranged in a 3 × 3 × 3 pattern, the title character makes philosophical observations about the world around him. Calvino shows us a man on a quest to quantify complex phenomena in a search for fundamental truths on the nature of being.