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Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs

Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs - Hardcover

by Claudia Dellacasa
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Availability:In StockContributor:Claudia DellacasaSeries:Italian Perspectives #62Publish date:2024-07-29Pages:216
Language:EnglishPublisher:LegendaISBN-13:9781839543012ISBN-10:1839543019UPC:9781839543012Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Comparative Literature, ModernBook Topic:Italian, 20th CenturySize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCKK6JSNZA

Italo Calvino (1923-85) travelled to Japan in the autumn of 1976. Thereafter, his work shows an increasing fascination with Japanese literature and Zen Buddhism, even as he adds Japanese works to the bookshelves of his library in Rome. This is the first study to restore to the author's writing the dynamics of East-West dialogues, addressing Japanese gardens and temples, but also literary and artistic expressions, as the spaces through which Calvino developed a landmark feature of his distinctive cultural ecology: a renewed awareness of the interdependency between human and other-than-human forms of life and communication.

Claudia Dellacasa is Lecturer in Italian at the University of Glasgow.


Language:EnglishPublisher:LegendaISBN-13:9781839543012ISBN-10:1839543019UPC:9781839543012Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:European, Comparative Literature, ModernBook Topic:Italian, 20th CenturySize:9.61 x 6.69 x 0.56 inchesWeight:1.2015Product ID:SCKK6JSNZA
Publisher: Legenda

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