ID Scheda #23858

Sezione
Critica
Tipo di risorsa
articolo su periodico culturale
Autore
Gawarecka, Anna
Titolo
«Niewidzialne miasta» - Michal Ajvaz czyta Italo Calvino
Titolo del periodico
Bohemistyka
Specifiche del periodico
4
Data di pubblicazione
2012
Pagine
267-279
Lingua
polacco
Paese di pubblicazione
Polonia
Abstract
Italo Calvino's Invisible cities (1972) is a fictional prosaic work which tries to consider a essential attributes of a modern urbanization. The hero, Marco Polo, shows his interlocutor, Kublai Khan, some imaginary cities which are regarded as the allegorical examples of the anthropological, semiotic, metaphysical, architectonic or mythical aspects of the city as a historical, philosophical and cultural phenomenon. Calvino however stresses the individual character of the described places. Michal Ajvaz's work titled 55 cities is a attempt of a new arrangement of a Calvino's topical matter and reconstructing it into a universal model of the city itself. According to him the main features which decide about the essence of urbanization are memory and desire. First of them defines the past of the city - the second creates its future.
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