Chapter 5: Deadly Meaningful, Meaningless Zen: Calvino’s Representations of the Unrepresentable

Claudia Dellacasa

From Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs (2024), pp. 143-172, doi:10.59860/ip.c595e9d

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Claudia Dellacasa

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Abstract.  5.1. Death as Absent Presence in Calvino — 5.1.1. Death and Deaths in Calvino’s Creative Trajectory; 5.1.2. Calvino and Zen: A Path towards the Overcoming of Immanence; 5.1.3. A Zen and Posthumanist Reading of the Ending of Palomar. 5.2. Death as Present Absence in the Japanese Tradition — 5.2.1. Overcoming Death in Zen Buddhism and Zen-informed Gardens and Architecture; 5.2.2. Death in Japanese Poetry and Prose.

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