Critica
Publiée 06/01/2006
Mots-clés
- travel,
- comparative literature,
- reason,
- allegory,
- utopia
Comment citer
D’Angelo, B. (2006). La ragione aperta. Guida (modesta) alle Città invisibili di Calvino. Verbum – Analecta Neolatina, 8(1), 69–86. https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.8.2006.1.5
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Résumé
In its allegorical travel through imaginary places, Calvino's Invisible Cities shows the oscillation between the limits and the opening of reason. Through the binomial "memory-desire," Marco Polo, the hero of this poetical Baedeker, insists on finding a place that responds to his longing for completeness. The pessimistic vision of certain cities is broken by an "open reason," which represents, for Calvino, the only possible "reading" of a dramatic travel through experience and existence.