VISIONI POSTMODERNE. PERCORSI TEORICI E TESTUALI NE LE CITTÀ INVISIBILI DI ITALO CALVINO

The volume examines the legacy of postmodernism, focusing attention on its literary and philosophical values through a dual research that associates textual surveys with its theoretical path. The first chapter offers a reinterpretation of the international debate on post-modernity in light of the most recent critical developments, with the aim of overcoming the theoretical bipolarity that marked the appearance and circulation of the postmodern paradigm in the Italian context. Particular attention is given to the philosophical and narrative implications, which is inherent in a discontinuous and fragmented vision of their historical background. The second chapter analyzes a textual confirmation of the post-modern aesthetic traits in Italo Calvino’s “Le città invisibili”, providing a stylistic and thematic analysis in relation to narrative discontinuity, the ambiguity of urban visions and reflection on temporality. The result is the ethical purpose of a work that is not exhausted through its linguistic and narrative structures, but that intercepts, through its visionary force, the ontological issues of post-modernity.

About the Author
Michela Meschini is a researcher in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of Macerata. For EUM she has supervised the collection of Edith Bruck’s poems Versi vissuti. Poesie (1975-1990) (2018) and, together with Carla Carotenuto, Scrittura, migrazione, identità in Italia. Voci a confronto (2011). Among her research fields, importance is also given to postcolonial female writing, theoretical-critical issues concerning inter artes relations and the work of Antonio Tabucchi in an interdisciplinary perspective, on which Michela has published several contributions in national and international volumes and magazines.