Intertextualidad

Menciones directas:
* Illusions perdues (1837) de Honoré de Balzac (en "Cuánto apostamos").
* Le Père Goriot (1835) de Honoré de Balzac (en "Cuánto apostamos").
* Mención a los escritores George H. Darwin, Gerard Kuiper y Edwin Hubble.

Indirecta:
* Calvino afirma en una autoentrevista que se realizó al publicar el libro que Las cosmicómicas están inspiradas en las obras de Giacomo Leopardi, Samuel Beckett, Giordano Bruno, Lewis Carroll, los cómics de Popeye creados por Elzie Crisler Segar y las pinturas de Roberto Matta, así como en ciertos casos los textos de Tommaso Landolfi, Immanuel Kant, Jorge Luis Borges y los grabados de J. J. Grandville.
* Posible alusión al mito griego de Eurídice y Orfeo (en "Sin colores").

Son 5 stelle ma in realtà sono 465476595, non saprei da dove cominciare per parlare di questa meraviglia.

Reading these stories by Calvino I couldn't help but think of Borges constantly. Maybe it was the character names that all sounded like they came from titles of Borges stories. Actually the whole collection felt like Borges to me, but if Borges had decided to write his stories based on science instead of about books, history and arcane knowledge. Since I don't really have much interest in science I never really got into these stories, although they are fun to read.