Kontestacja przestrzeni w "Niewidzialnych miastach" Italo Calvino

• Authors: Filip Karpow

Title variants

EN

The Contestation of Space in 'Invisible Cities' by Italo Calvino

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article presents an analysis of the complex relation between the spatial and narrative aspects of human identity as seen in Italo Calvino's novel Invisible Cities. The cities described in the novel exemplify the crisis of the tamed and objectified narrative space which serves as the basis of human existence. This process comprises: the contestation of history (the relation between space and the linear time), the contestation of narrative (the human ability to imbue space with meaning) and, lastly, the contestation of the identity (the ability to build an identity based on domesticated space).

Keywords

PL

przestrzeń miejska; przestrzeń narracji; tożsamość człowieka; kontestacja; miasta

EN

city-space; narrative space; human identity; contestation; Italo Calvino

• Journal: Białostockie Studia Literaturoznawcze
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 185-198

Dates

published

2011-06-30

Contributors

author

Filip Karpow

• Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewiczaw Poznaniu

Identifiers

DOI

10.15290/bsl.2011.02.14