The Dialectic of Metafiction and Neorealism in Calvinos Baron in the T

The Dialectic of Meta prevarication and Neorealism in Calvinos power in the Trees. I agree to my books being read as empiric or as structural proceedings, as Marxist or neo-Kantian, Freudianly or Jungianly but to a higher place alone I am glad to suck in that no one key will open the lock.The above quotation perhaps shows more than anything else the ambiguity of Calvinos works. The obsession to label all taradiddles arises from our compulsion to make sense of this world, as literary generic wine categories pee part of our cosmologies. Calvinos work however, eludes us by drawing upon multifarious techniques and images to get to a narrative that defies all generic conventions. Attempting to arrive at a sole conclusion with a single key to unlock Calvinos narrative is to underestimate its full potential, for no single label justifies the ambiguity of his work. Indeed, the start of the attention focused on Calvinos work is derived mainly from its elusiveness, and its inability to be placed into any particular category. Critics have long been divided over the polemics of his work, one significant aspect of which lies in whether or not Calvinos fiction can be considered as a fairy tale or as a realist story. realismo a carica fiabiasca and fiaba a carica realistica (realism infused with fairytale and fairytale infused with realism). (Cavino, Introduction) What I am interested in is how the notions of metafiction and neorealism work in Calvinos narratives. Undoubtedly, as I have established earlier, it is not possible to label his work as falling into either one or the other generic category. Rather, I would say that both neorealist tendencies and metafictional elements work to make Calvinos short story. antithetical as these two notions are in ... ...inburgh UP. 1993. Calvino, Italo. Baron In The Trees Our Ancestors. Trans. Archibald Colquhoun. capital of the United Kingdom Mandarin Paperbacks, 1992. ---. Introduction to gli amori difficili, 2nd ed vii. Turin Einuadi, 1970.Cannon, JoAnn. Postmodern Italian Fiction. capital of the United Kingdom and Toronto Associated University Presses, 1989. Carter, Albert Howard. Italo Calvino Metamorphoses of Fantasy, Studies in Speculative Fiction. Ann Arbor, Michigan UMI Research Press, 1987.Gabriele, Tommasina. Italo Calvino Eros and Language. London and Toronto Associated University Presses, 1994. Lodge, David. Metafiction. The dodge Of Fiction. New York Viking, 1993. 206-210. Waugh, Patricia. What is Metafiction and why are they saying Such Horrible Things around It? Metafiction. Ed. Mark Currie. Harlow Longman, 1995. 39-54. USP Home Literary Studies Students Projects