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Claudia Dellacasa

From Italo Calvino and Japan: A Journey through the Shallow Depths of Signs (2024), pp. 173-177, doi:10.59860/ip.c6a4efc

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Claudia Dellacasa

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Abstract.  The themes explored in Calvino’s later work are more-than-human perspectives, languages and silence, void, time, and death. Calvino’s interest in such themes may have been gestating for some time, but it is clear, as this book hopes to have shown, that his direct contact with Japanese culture represents the point at which they begin to predominate, as opposed to exerting a marginal influence.

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