Bob's review
Mr. Palomar
by Italo Calvino
Bob's review
Mr. Palomar by Italo Calvino
Bob's review
rating:
Describes a man almost overwhelmed by his attempts not to live an unexamined life - his abstract notions about how to be a better, more fulfilled person tend to suffer from how annoying actual other people are. One of the most engaging chapters is on a visit to a cheese shop - with an undercurrent of commentary on the difficulty of almost unlimited choice in consumer culture, Mr. Palomar nonetheless thinks through a delighted rhapsody of appreciation for natural and agricultural diversity and bounty, until it comes time to actually order, when his high-flown plans dissolve and he falls back on the familiar.
