Naslov
A Dream of the Perfect Map Calvino’s Invisible Cities

Autori
Vrbančić, Mario

Izvornik
[sic] - časopis za književnost, kulturu i književno prevođenje (1847-7755) 2 (2011), 2; 1-17

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
Calvino ; Borges ; maps

Sažetak
In this essay Vrbancic focuses on narrative strategies of Italo Calvino in his Invisible Cities and his attempt to map the invisible. He shows that Calvino’s ways to map the invisible crystallize the tension between structuralist spatialization on the one hand and deceptive heterotopic isolation on the other, which ultimately results in the rhyzomic sprouting of a zigzag line. The slogan for navigation in Calvino’s Esmeralda – “the shortest distance between two points is not the straight line but a zigzag” (Calvino 88) is the hymn for a new multiplicity, for a new mapping that correlates with the unrestrained idea of the text and intertextuality. He argues that Borges’ and Calvino’s ‘maps’ converge with the theories that emphasized openness, decentredness, multiplicities, multivocality, celebrated by Barthes’ idea of the text under the motto “My name is legion for we are many” (Barthes 160).

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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