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Mr. Palomar
''Mr. Palomar'' is a 1983 novel by the Italian writer Italo Calvino. Its original Italian title is ''Palomar''. In an interview with Gregory Lucente, Calvino stated that he began writing ''Mr. Palomar'' in 1975, making it a predecessor to earlier published works such as ''If on a winter's night a traveler''.〔Lucente, Gregory. ''An Interview with Italo Calvino''. Contemporary Literature. Vol. 26, No. 3, (Autumn 1985), p. 248.〕 ''Mr. Palomar'' was published in an English translation by William Weaver in 1985.〔Calvino, Italo. ''Mr. Palomar''. (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1985) (ISBN 978-0151628353) (English First Edition).〕 ==Plot== 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. The first section is concerned chiefly with visual experience; the second with anthropological and cultural themes; the third with speculations about larger questions such as the cosmos, time, and infinity. This thematic triad is mirrored in the three subsections of each section, and the three chapters in each subsection. For example, chapter 1.2.3, "The infinite lawn" ("Il prato infinito") has elements of all three themes, and shows the progress of the book in miniature. It encompasses very detailed observations of the various plants growing in Mr Palomar's lawn, an investigation of the symbolism of the lawn as a marker of culture versus nature, the problem of categorizing weeds, the problem of the actual extent of the lawn, the problem of how we perceive elements and collections of those elements ... These thoughts and others run seamlessly together, so by the end of the chapter we find Mr Palomar extending his mind far beyond his garden, and contemplating the nature of the universe itself.
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