Chapter 3: Japanese Impressions in Calvino’s Images of the Void

Claudia Dellacasa

From Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs (2024), pp. 81-110, doi:10.59860/ip.c37760f

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Claudia Dellacasa

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Abstract.  3.1. Valences of the Void in Calvino’s Works — 3.1.1. Variable Nuances of the Void between the 1950s and the 1970s; 3.1.2. The Role of Japan in Calvino’s Evolving Weak Structuralism; 3.1.3. Palomar’s Empty Self Ranging over the Appearance of Things. 3.2. Space for the Void in Japan — 3.2.1. Declinations of Space and Distance in Japan; 3.2.2. Philosophical, Artistic, and Literary Conceptualisations of the Void in Japan.

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