The Watcher and Other Stories
of Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator), Archibald Colquhoun (Translator)
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Alternate cover edition can be found here. In "The Watcher," a member of the Communist Party is assigned to a polling place in Turin's Hospital for Incurables, where he observes the rejects of humanity and a grotesque parody of the democratic process. "Smog" anticipates a preoccupation with pollution so lunatic that it casts a pall even over the hero's affair with a beautiful woman. "The Argentine Ant" is a piece of sustained horror with farcical undertones, illustrating man's defeat before an enemy too small to be overcome.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 181 pages
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin
- Publication Date 1975
- First Publication 11/06/63
- Language English
- ISBN 9780156949521
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
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