1st Edition
Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities Around the World
Contents, List of Contributors, Introduction, Part I, 1. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities in Brazil: A Bridge Between Literature and Other Fields (Andréia Guerini), 2. Invisible Cities in France: The Values of the Six Memos in the French Translation and Retranslation (Sandra Garbarino), 3. Calvino’s Invisible Cities in the Netherlands and Flanders: (In)visibilities in Translation and Reception (Elio Baldi and Linda Pennings), 4. Strategic Occidentalism in Mexico: Comparing Two Translations of Invisible Cities in the Context of the Generación de Medio siglo (Rodrigo Jardón Herrera and Sabina Longhitano), 5. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities in Romania. A Pulviscular Presence (Corina-Gabriela Badelita), Part II, 6. Invisible Cities in Scandinavia: Editorial Journeys, Migrant Signs, and Paratextual Loops (Hanne Jansen and Cecilia Schwartz), 7. Unpublished Cities in the USSR: The Soviet Critical Reception of Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities (1973-1991) (Ilaria Sicari), 8. Italo Calvino and Invisible Cities in China: A Narrative Wonder (Nicoletta Pesaro), 9. Invisible Cities in Poland. A Journey Through Languages and Memory (Anita Kłos), Part III, 10. Invisible Cities in Japan: Fluid Resonances in Architecture and Literature (Filippo Cervelli and Claudia Dellacasa), 11. Calvino Travels to the East: Invisible Cities, Open Architecture, and Orientalism (Ecem Sarıçayır), 12. Invisible Cities: a Performative Adaptation (Irene Fiordilino), 13. A Rhizomatic Acrostic in Africa through Calvino’s Invisible Cities (Valentina Acava), 14. A Calvinian Architecture: An Italian-Born Artist Living in Australia (Domenico De Clario), Epilogue: An Italian perspective on the travels of Le città invisibili in the world (Andrea Palermitano), Index
Biography
Elio Baldi is Assistant Professor in Romance languages and cultures at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Cecilia Schwartz is Professor of Italian at Stockholm University, Sweden.
"Calvino's Invisible Cities is a unique masterpiece of literature that continues to impress and influence readers, scholars, critics, artists, and architects around the world... the translated novel [is] like a meteor crashed into foreign ecosystems which, however, relentlessly attempt to absorb it in their literary and cultural systems."
- Katja Liimatta, University of Iowa, Annali d’italianistica
