A review by balancinghistorybooks
The Distance of the Moon by Italo Calvino

2.0

I have not really been a fan of what I have read of Italo Calvino's work thus far, but went into this collection of 'exuberant, endlessly inventive stories' with an open mind nonetheless. The tales collected here - 'The Distance of the Moon', 'Without Colours', 'As Long As the Sun Lasts', and 'Implosion' - were published between 1965 and 2009, and have been variously translated by Martin McLaughlin, Tim Parks, and William Weaver. I found Calvino's work interesting enough, particularly with regard to the metaphors which he uses. There is some really imaginative imagery to be found here too. Overall, however, I found this collection - which hovers between the classifications of science fiction and fantasy - peculiar, and not to my taste. It is nothing which I would have chosen to read had it not been included in the Penguin Moderns Collection.