![]() The shadow of postmodern studies has had a similarly diminishing effect on this text, rendering up an accomplished but ultimately apolitical novelistic experimentation in endless deconstructive deferrals, the shiny surfaces of play, and the ultimately rigged game of self-referentiality. ![]() Passages fromCalvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, reducing the novel to vague abstractions and totalizing wisdom about thinking outside the box. ![]() Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works-primarily urban planning and design theory and history-circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s.
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