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The exploration of the nature of space runs throughout Calvino's novel creation. The writer tried to create different spatial forms at different times to convey his understanding of the world. Compared with other writers of his generation, he is not an experiencer of space, but a shaper of space and a reflector of the concept of space. This highly speculative exploration of space makes Calvino unique among many space writings. This book combines Calvino's eleven representative works from different periods into a whole. Taking spatial form and subject anxiety as the research goals, this book outlines the evolution of Calvino's spatial concepts and the growth process of subject thought contained in them.

In ancient times, Pluto controlled the cycle of life and death, the highest order in the six realms. One hundred thousand years ago, the gods and demons, greedy for eternal life, plotted to murder Hades, invaded the underworld, and shattered the river Styx, the mother river of the underworld, and their whereabouts are unknown. Since then, the order of life and death has been brutally destroyed, the six realms have been in turmoil, and all life has been in ruins. Everlasting companions, the sky and the river Styx. The great road controls the heart, and all the gods are dust.