Qfwfq

The story of Qfwfq, his deaf cousin, the captain of their ship and his randy wife, is very sweetly told.

Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics (2009) Adam Roberts 2010

With a few exceptions Thomas Pynchon ' s Mike Fallopian, for example, or Italo Calvino ' s Qfwfq or Terry Pratchett ' s Bashfull Bashfullsson, contemporary novelists tend to keep their characters ' names in the realm of the plausible.

Dear Book Lover Cynthia Crossen 2010

The story of Qfwfq, his deaf cousin, the captain of their ship and his randy wife, is very sweetly told.

Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Each story starts with a fact Calvino has culled from 'science' which he then parses into stories narrated by the main character 'Qfwfq'.

Archive 2010-02-01 Adam Roberts 2010

Each story starts with a fact Calvino has culled from 'science' which he then parses into stories narrated by the main character 'Qfwfq'.

Italo Calvino, The Complete Cosmicomics (2009) Adam Roberts 2010

Alarmed, Qfwfq quickly calculates the moment on earth two hundred million light-years previous that would date back to that sighting in the distant galaxy, checks his diary, and realizes, to his horror, that it was the one moment in his long life that he might be considered to have done something disreputable.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2007 Archives 2007

At the beginning of "The Light-Years," old Qfwfq happens to notice, as he is observing the sky with his telescope one night, a sign hanging from a galaxy a hundred million light-years away.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2007 Archives 2007

The stories in Cosmicomics are all connected by one character, our friend and usually narrator Qfwfq, who has lived through all time from the Big Bang onwards and who domesticates the cosmos for us by relating his own adventures through some of its more significant moments.

Peace, order and good government, eh?: January 2007 Archives 2007

How, for example, is one to do justice to a book like Cosmicomics (1965), that endlessly inventive re-creation of our myths of Creation, whose main character, one Qfwfq by name, remembers the passing of the dinosaurs?

A Master's Legacy Leithauser, Brad 1988

The moon is old, Qfwfq agreed, pitted with holes, worn out.

The New Yorker 2009