Il disordine del mondo. Reticoli figurali, sistema e diacronia di un motivo saggistico in Calvino

• Autores: Sergio Bozzola
• Localización: Giornale storico della letteratura italiana, ISSN 0017-0496, Vol. 199, Nº. 668, 2022, págs. 565-585
• Idioma: italiano
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• Resumen

  • The first part of this article is dedicated to an analysis of Calvino’s view of world disorder in his nonfiction prose. It begins by examining the loci of such disorder, intended first of all as the result of an historical process and then as a universal condition or as the ontological state of nature and of the civilised world. Next the focus falls on its attributes, which are linked to the semantic fields of involution and movement (e.g. avalanche, wind-generated destruction, etc.) and to those of vortex and the abyss, with their associated terms, such as frost, darkness, fire, labyrinth and tangled knot. Disorder is countered by other terms and analogies that refer back to the general concepts of measure, method and logic, to which are associated the qualities of clarity and transparency. In the second and third parts, the article deals with the function attributed by Calvino to literature in handling disorder, i.e. opposition vs representation, and ultimately to literature as being a condition for grasping the intricato groviglio, or intricate knot, that makes up the world.