Using the mechanisms of fables, this work focuses with precision on human reality. Nature in these stories has a magical quality in the flight of a crow, the iridescent track of a snail, the sideways leap of a stray cat - but the magic can encompass both...
A triptych of novels in one volume. Viscount Medardo is bisected by a cannonball on the plains of Bohemia; Baron Cosimo, aged 12, retires to the trees for the rest of his days; and Charlemagne's knight, Agiluf, is an empty suit of armour.
Like the space telescope that shares his name, Mr. Palomar is a dedicated watcher -- a seeker of the cosmic as it relates to the commonplace. Whether contemplating the movement of stars and planets from his apartment terrace in Rome, the wheeze of a matin...