Italo Calvino
Quale autore laggiù attende la fine?
- Anna Mario,
Climatologists have been warning that "we have little time left", but in the meantime, energy resources are running out and whole populations flee in search of food and security, while in capitalist financial systems the resources are held by a few. If this is today's picture, what should we do? Italo Calvino, the greatest Italian intellectual and writer of the second half of the 20th century, wondered about these issues in the mid-Seventies, summarizing them in one question: what must be done to limit the 'catastrophe'? This volume examines the way Calvino discusses the said problem in newspaper articles, interviews and stories, and the intellectual and human solutions he offers. The writer works on texts by great authors (Gogol', Montale, Pirandello) from which he retrieves other themes and problems, and represents the catastrophe in the last short story of If on a winter’s night a traveller, entitled What story down there awaits its end?: a tough controversy against approximations, cultural and mental disorders, incompetence, lack of planning and blindness in front of the positive data of the world that can be seen even in the everyday disturbances (by those who know how to see them).
- DOI: 10.36253/978-88-6655-834-7
- Series: Studi e saggi
- Scientific Board: Consiglio Editoriale FUP 2010-2016
- Language: Italian
- Subjects: Linguistic
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University of Perugia, Italy
- Publication Year: 2015
- Pages: 126
- eISBN: 978-88-6655-834-7
- Content License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- © 2015 Author(s)
- Publication Year: 2015
- eISBN: 978-88-6655-835-4
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- Publication Year: 2015
- Pages: 126
- ISBN: 978-88-6655-833-0
- Content License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
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- Publication Year: 2015
- eISBN: 978-88-9273-363-3
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Book Title
Italo Calvino
Book Subtitle
Quale autore laggiù attende la fine?
Authors
Anna Mario
Peer Reviewed
Number of Pages
126
Publication Year
2015
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© 2015 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/978-88-6655-834-7
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978-88-6655-833-0
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978-88-6655-834-7
eISBN (epub)
978-88-6655-835-4
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978-88-9273-363-3
Series Title
Studi e saggi
Series ISSN
2704-6478
Series E-ISSN
2704-5919
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