V. 8 N. 1 (2006)
Critica

La ragione aperta. Guida (modesta) alle Città invisibili di Calvino

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Biagio D'Angelo
Universidad Católica Sedes Sapientiae Lima, Peru
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1556/Verb.8.2006.1.5

Pubblicato 01-06-2006

Parole chiave

  • travel,
  • comparative literature,
  • reason,
  • allegory,
  • utopia

Come citare

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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Abstract

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.

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