On the Writing of"Things"and Its Essence in Calvino's Late Works
Based on Italo Calvino's late works(1980-1986),this paper aims to explore the characteristics and essence of Calvino's writing of"things"within the context of"Thingly Turn"in European intellectual realm.By means of the author's phenomenological method,this paper construes how Calvino's characterization of the core figure,Palomar,shakes off the subject-object dichotomy of traditional Western epistemology from three aspects:the viewer,the viewing perspective,and the viewed things.Calvino's writing of"things"reconstructs the relationship between human beings and the world,literature and the world,which is significant in literary history and intellectual history.The things in Calvino's works have been rid of the subject,metaphysics,and human reference,implying the return to a thing in itself,a solitary thing and an absolute thing,in order to break the tradition that"literature is the study of man,"and re-associate literature with things at the ontological level by returning to the original state of things.It is the first step that Calvino has taken towards reconstructing the Western value system.
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