Chapter 4: Time Is a Time Is A-time Is Non-time: Calvino and the Temporal Paradoxes of Zen

Claudia Dellacasa

From Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs (2024), pp. 111-142, doi:10.59860/ip.c486a56

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Claudia Dellacasa

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Abstract.  4.1. Time in the Evolution of Calvino’s Works — 4.1.1. Different Forms of Narrative (A)temporalities; 4.1.2. Visualisation of Temporal Paradoxes in Japanese Wooden Temples; 4.1.3. Cosmic Time in Palomar. 4.2. The Shapes of Time in Japan — 4.2.1. A Threefold Path towards Satori: Observation, Abstraction, and Enlightenment; 4.2.2. Temporal Cycles and Porous Chronology in Japanese Architecture, Poetry, and Prose.

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