Italo Calvino (1923–1985) is an Italian writer whose books are included in the golden fund of world literature of the 20th century. His works, translated into many languages, amaze with amazing images, genre-breaking plots, paradoxicality and deep philosophical meaning. The collection “Cosmic Comic Stories” consists of strange, surreal, postmodern stories. This time the author tries to answer the question of how the Universe arose and how evolution took place on Earth. One ironic theory follows another. Each satirically distorted hypothesis is preceded by a dozen new ones. As a result, the concept of a narrative is built: entertaining, inexhaustible in invention - and at the same time forcing the reader to think seriously about many ethical issues. Literary and artistic publication.