« L’œil du hibou ». Le Flaubert au pluriel de Calvino

Flaubert represents for Italo Calvino an absolute of formal invention that he interrogates (often mediated through other writers) according to three constellations of reading: the invisible, the unknowable, the unnameable. “Several Flaubert(s) in the plural” are thus inscribed throughout Calvino’s t...

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Main Author: Susi Pietri
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Language:fra
Published: Institut des Textes & Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM) 2017-12-01
Series:Flaubert: Revue Critique et Génétique
Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/flaubert/2815
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description Flaubert represents for Italo Calvino an absolute of formal invention that he interrogates (often mediated through other writers) according to three constellations of reading: the invisible, the unknowable, the unnameable. “Several Flaubert(s) in the plural” are thus inscribed throughout Calvino’s theoretical texts over time: nihilist Flaubert; supreme Model of work on form; Master of doubt and skepticism; critic of culture and of the plurality of languages; forerunner of the avant-gardes; paradigm of narrative visibility; invisible “God” of infinity at the heart of the infinitesimal; exemplary witness of the dissolution of knowledge; testamentary executor of the romance of convention; literary ancestor of “knowledge-as-multiplicity”; seeker of the absolute through the encounter with otherness.
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