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Modern Italy
Journal of Modern Italian Studies
RIVISTA DI STUDI ITALIANI
Anno VIII , n° 1, Giugno 1990 ( Contributi ) pag. 56-69
THE ALCHEMICAL LANGUAGEOF ITALO CALVINO'S
SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM
AND INVISIBLE CITIES
CRISTINA DEGLI ESPOSTI
Indiana University,
Bloomington, Indiana
Some considerations on alchemy will serve to trace a connection
between this ancient philosophy of transformation and some of the speculations typical of Calvino's literary production. The present analysis considers Invisible Cities1 in the light of Six Memos for the Next Millennium2, a theoretical work which appears as a summation of the concepts and ideas Calvino had previously employed in his many works over a time span of about forty years. [...]
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