Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities Around the World
1st Edition
Published on 5. May 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
306 pages
978-1-032-27768-4 (ISBN)
Description
This volume offers a detailed analysis of selected cases in the reception, translation and artistic reinterpretation of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) around the world.
The book traces the many different ways in which Calvino's modern classic has been read, translated and adapted in Brazil, France, the Netherlands and Flanders, Mexico, Romania, Scandinavia, the USSR, China, Poland, Japan and Australia. It also offers analyses of the relation between Calvino's book and, respectively, the East and Africa, as well as reflections on the book's inspiration for, and resonance in, dance, architecture and art. The volume thus traces the diversity in the reception and circulation of Invisible Cities in different countries and continents, offering a much wider framework for the discussion of Calvino's masterpiece than before, and a more detailed picture of its cultural and linguistic ramifications.
This book will be of interest to scholars in Comparative Literature, World Literature, Translation Studies, Italian Studies, Romance Languages, European Studies, Dance, Architecture and Media Studies, as well as to scholars specialised in paratext and reception.
The book traces the many different ways in which Calvino's modern classic has been read, translated and adapted in Brazil, France, the Netherlands and Flanders, Mexico, Romania, Scandinavia, the USSR, China, Poland, Japan and Australia. It also offers analyses of the relation between Calvino's book and, respectively, the East and Africa, as well as reflections on the book's inspiration for, and resonance in, dance, architecture and art. The volume thus traces the diversity in the reception and circulation of Invisible Cities in different countries and continents, offering a much wider framework for the discussion of Calvino's masterpiece than before, and a more detailed picture of its cultural and linguistic ramifications.
This book will be of interest to scholars in Comparative Literature, World Literature, Translation Studies, Italian Studies, Romance Languages, European Studies, Dance, Architecture and Media Studies, as well as to scholars specialised in paratext and reception.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Illustrations
1 s/w Abbildung, 1 s/w Photographie bzw. Rasterbild, 28 s/w Tabellen
28 Tables, black and white; 1 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
466 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-27768-4 (9781032277684)
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Elio Baldi | Cecilia Schwartz
Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities Around the World
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12/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
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Elio Baldi | Cecilia Schwartz
Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities Around the World
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€60.49
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Elio Baldi | Cecilia Schwartz
Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders
Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities Around the World
E-Book
12/2023
1st Edition
Taylor & Francis
€60.49
Available for download
Persons
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.
Cecilia Schwartz is Professor of Italian at Stockholm University, Sweden.
Content
Contents, List of Contributors, Introduction - Elio Baldi and Cecilia Schwartz, Part I, 1. Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities in Brazil: A Bridge Between Literature and Other Fields (Andreia 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 Generacion de Medio siglo (Rodrigo Jardon Herrera and Sabina Longhitano), 5. Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities in Romania. A Pulviscular Presence (Corina Badelita), Part II, 6. Invisible Cities in Scandinavia - Editorial Journeys, Migrant Signs, and Paratextual Loops (Hanne Jansen and Cecilia Schwartz), 7. Un-Published 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 Klos), 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 Saricayir), 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 citta invisibili in the world (Andrea Palermitano), Index