This is the good of being halved ...
"We all feel incomplete in some way, all we produce a part of us and not the other" (I. Calvino, American Lessons, from an interview to the students)
L.T.
In "The Cloven Viscount", I. Calvino does tell Medardo, half good of his character: "O Pamela, this is half of being good: the understanding of 'every person and thing in the world is worth that each and each has for its incompleteness. I was full and did not understand, and I was moving deaf and incommunicable between the pains and wounds sown everywhere, where less from whole one dares to believe. not only I, Pamela, are to be broken and torn but I too and all. now, I have a fraternity that before, from whole, did not know: the one with all the mutilations and failings of the world. If you come with me, Pamela, you'll learn to suffer the ills of each and to treat your taking care of them. ( "The Viscount halved", I. Calvino)
Calvin does tell Medardo: the understanding of 'every person and thing in the world ... and then referring not only to people, but also to things, like a wheel and its hub in mechanical, positive and negative charges in the electricity, and chemical enantiomers in the inanimate world; and yet, in the living world, the male gamete and female, a young lover in search of his soul mate, and so on. An intuition and a global vision, those of Calvin.
"I did not see anything. I was hiding in the forest to tell me stories. I knew it too late and started to run towards the sea, shouting: - Doctor! Doctor Trelawney! Take me with you! He can not leave me here, doctor! But already ships were disappearing to 'horizon and I was here, in this world full of responsibility and wisps. "(" The Viscount halved ", I. Calvino)
In his' Note 1960 ', in closing, Italo Calvino says: "I wanted to make one' s experiences as a trilogy on human beings realize: the conquest of the nonexistent knight 'to be, in the Cloven Viscount' s aspiration for a completeness beyond the mutilation imposed by the company, in Baron in the Trees a path to wholeness not individualistic to be achieved through fidelity to individual self-determination: three degrees d 'approach to freedom. ... I wish (ed. the three stories) could be looked at as a family tree of the 'modern man ancestors, where every face hides some features of the people who are around, of you, of myself.
June 1960. "
From "Baron in the Trees":
"Every now and then writing m 'interrupt and go to the window. The sky is empty, and we old d' Ombrosa, accustomed to live under those green domes, it hurts the eyes looking at him. It seems that the trees did not stand after my brother if n 'is gone, or that men were taken from the dark fury.
... Ombrosa no c 'is more. Looking at the clear sky, I wonder if it really existed. That frastaglio of branches and leaves, bifurcations, lobes, spiumii, minutes and no end, and heaven only at irregular flashes and clippings, maybe c 'was just because we passed my brother with his light step of the long-tailed tit, was an embroidery done on anything that looks like this d 'ink wire, such as' I let it go on for pages, chock of erasures, cross-references, nervous scribbles, stains, gaps, which at times is reeled in large clear grapes, in moments thickens in semi tiny point-like seeds, now he turns back on itself, now forks, now colleague sentences lumps with contours of leaves and clouds, then s' Intoppa, and then resumes to twist, and runs runs and unwinds and wraps one last insane bunch of words and ideas dreams ended. "(" The Baron in the Trees ", I. Calvino)
n.d.a. On this page, I tried to create simple combinations Music-Fiction-Images on the basis of a personal suggestion. The discerning reader can deepen the theme of the great writer reading Insights on Italo Calvino.
Zeferino Siani
Saturday, October 30, 2010 13:03 Zeferino Siani
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