21747X1 Harvest/HBJ Book, San Diego: 1983. 130 pages. Softcover. Good condition. Mr. Palomar, whose name purposely evokes that of a famous telescope, is a seeker of knowledge, a visionary in a world sublime and ridiculous. Alone, his cosmic perspective on the ordinary balances between the comedic present and the eternal void. Palomar's interior dialogues are constantly intruded upon by the civilized "I," a crusty, charming gentleman who fails as a telescope but delights as a man. Translated into English from the Italian by William Weaver. "What is most impressive about Mr. Palomar is a sense of the safety net being withdrawn at the end, of beautiful nimble solitary feats of imagination being carried off not so much to dazzle an audience as to outface what poet Philip Larkin calls 'the solitary emptiness/That lies just under all we do.'" - Seamus Heaney, New York Times Book Review ISBN: 0156627809 $15.50USD
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