Image, Eye and Art in Calvino

This book addresses a central concern in the work of Italy's most important contemporary novelist, Italo Calvino. It investigates the relationship between the visual and the textual in Italo Calvino's oeuvre a key aspect of the author's multidimensional writings.

Autorentext

Birgitte Grundtvig

Klappentext

This book addresses a central concern in the work of Italy's most important contemporary novelist, Italo Calvino. It investigates the relationship between the visual and the textual in Italo Calvino's oeuvre-a key aspect of the author's multidimensional writings.

Inhalt

Le Square Introduction Part I: Image 1. Calvino's Colours 2. Colours, Landscapes and the Senses in Difficult Loves 3. The Visual in Cosmicomics: Myth and Classical Rhetoric 4. Images and Scientific Knowledge in Calvino 5. Recreating Visibility in Literary Translation: How to Code Space in Italian and in Danish 6. The Significance of Visibility: Interpreting the Image in Calvino Part II: Eye 7. Innanzi Tutto, Aprire Leggermente, Ovvero... Contemplations About Language: Verbosities, Infelicities, Nonsensicalities, Oddities 8. Calvino at Play: Rules and Games for Writing in Space 9. The Dizzying Gaze: Calvino's Thesis, the First Novel, and Conrad as a Model of Visibility 10. From the Vantage Point of Hindsight': Viewing Calvino's Landscape 11. Leaning from the Steep Slope...': The Fall of the Cartographic Eye in Calvino's Late Works 12. Language and the Brain's 'Mental Cinema' Part III: Art 13. From Picasso to Dürer: Calvino's Book Covers 14. Italo Calvino and the Fantastic Iconology of Cartoons 15. The Photographic Image: Calvino 'in Dialogue' with Barthes, Sontag and Baudrillard 16. Ekphrasis: The Problem of Representing Visual Art in the Works of Italo Calvino and Per Højholt 17. Signs and Visuality in Italo Calvino's Narratives 18. Calvino and Klee: Variations of Line Part IV: Ekphrasis 19. The Painter of Absence 20. The Arrow in the Mind: A Review of 'The Mechanism of Meaning' 22. Calvino's Apartment in Rome: An Imagined Space