Palomar

About This Novel

Calvino agreed that this book is "an autobiography written in the third person" and admitted that "any experience of Palomar is my experience." The protagonist Palomar in the novel is very imaginative and speculative. He is obsessed with detailed observation of objective objects and their states, such as the waves of the sea, the shape of geckos, the moon, stars, and grass. He constantly asked himself various questions, such as sexual desire, death, people's situation in society, etc., And explored the relationship between people and the universe, the disorder and order of the world, and the language communication between people. Here, Calvino, incarnated as Palomar, conceals his final contemplation of the world in the narrative, penetrating the entire experience of life. Calvino passed away one year after the novel was published. What is significant is that the last chapter of "Palomar" is entirely devoted to the protagonist's meditation on death.

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