Transcript Italo Calvino Palomar

Italo Calvino
Palomar
Title: Palomar
Author: Italo Calvino
Format: Paperback
Language: Italian
Pages: 130
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ISBN: 8804379901
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«Rileggendo il tutto, m'accorgo che la storia di Palomar si può riassumere in due frasi: "Un
uomo si mette in marcia per raggiungere, passo a passo, la saggezza. Non è ancora arrivato".»
(Dalla presentazione scritta da Calvino nel 1983)
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Raffaella Foresti: Cari alieni,
il nostro viaggio alla scoperta della letteratura postmoderna e delle sue origini, guardando alla
nostra Italia, non poteva che passare da Italo Calvino, grande innovatore della narrazione – e
non solo – del secondo ‘900.
Tra le molte sue opere qui si tratta, in particolare, di Palomar, pubblicato dalla casa editrice
Einaudi nel 1983. Un romanzo che è anche un’esperienza, il viaggio avventuroso di un uomo
ossessionato dalla ricerca di una chiave di pensiero, potremmo chiamarla, che gli consenta di
svelare l’ordine che lega il mondo ai suoi elementi, e i suoi elementi tra loro.
L’opera presenta indubbiamente i caratteri del romanzo filosofico e tuttavia tradisce, nelle sue
intenzioni e nella sua perfetta riuscita, quello che viene ormai da molti citato come uno dei tratti
peculiari del postmodernismo: la rinuncia divertita-e-per-niente-ingenua a qualsiasi pretesa di
comprensione sistematica della realtà.
Il Telescopio Palomar
La trama è molto semplice. Il signor Palomar è un uomo taciturno e solitario. Moglie, figlia, casa
con giardino e vacanze al mare. Forse anche un cane, e la familiare nel box. Dal luogo di
villeggiatura alla città, Palomar trascorre le sue giornate in osservazione, impegnato com’è a
scrutare con maniacale precisione i fenomeni che la natura manifesta ai suoi occhi, ad intuirne
gli schemi, le connessioni. Non a caso il nome del protagonista coincide con quello del celebre
Mount Palomar, dov’è situato uno dei più importanti osservatori astronomici degli Stati Uniti: la
rilevanza paradossale dell’omonimia è presto colta, se si considera che il nostro uomo, affetto
da miopia, non riesce a mettere a fuoco gli oggetti che si trovano in lontananza e dedica tutto sé
stesso alla minuta osservazione del dettaglio.
La struttura del romanzo, che si presenta in forma di brevi racconti, ci viene illustrata dallo
stesso Calvino in una nota esplicativa. Si tratta un’opera divisa in tre parti di nove racconti
ciascuna, a loro volta suddivisi in tre capitoli, per un totale di ventisette brevi “esperienze” che
vedono il signor Palomar protagonista osservatore e pensatore. La tripartizione illustra i diversi
approcci al conoscere dell’uomo: quello sensoriale, e nella specie visivo; quello antropologico,
cioè mediato dall’inserimento di fattori culturali e linguistici, e quello puramente speculativo.
Anche lo stile, la lingua dei racconti, varia a seconda della modalità conoscitiva in questione:
dalle descrizioni per le esperienze visive, alle narrazioni per le esperienze conoscitive che
abbiamo definito antropologiche, fino alle astrazioni più pure, per le speculazioni di sapore
metafisico.
E così, giorno dopo giorno, il nostro Palomar osserva e medita, medita e osserva. Dal gorilla
albino dello zoo alla volta celeste si susseguono le sue molteplici disavventure intellettuali, con
effetti comici a tratti esilaranti. Ogni racconto si conclude con un fallimento ma, per nulla
scoraggiato – solo un po’ innervosito – Palomar ricomincia la sua indagine, alla ricerca perenne
di un punto di vista che gli darà la comprensione del tutto.
Nel suo incedere ad excludendum il nostro eroe, e di seguito Calvino, arriveranno ad una
conclusione… che non vi svelo. Per non togliervi, qualora non l’abbiate ancora provato, il
piacere di questa immensa lettura.
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Rosa Ramôa: Italo Calvino,Itália,1923-1985 Escritor "O conhecimento do próximo tem isto de
especial: passa necessariamente pelo conhecimento de si mesmo".(Palomar)
Erin: "At this aspect Mr. Palomar's little girl, who has lengthy considering the fact that bored with
looking at the giraffes, pulls him towards the penguins' cave. Mr. Palomar, in whom penguins
encourage anguish, follows her reluctantly and asks himself why he's so attracted to giraffes.
might be as the international round him strikes in an unharmonious way, and he hopes
consistently to discover a few development in it, a constant. maybe simply because he himself
feels that his personal increase is impelled by way of uncoordinated activities of the mind, which
appear to have not anything to do with each other and are more and more tricky to slot into any
trend of internal harmony." (Italo Calvino, Mr. Palomar, 80.)The first two-thirds of the e-book
move on like this, with Mr. Palomar considering the common world-- plants, animals, planets-after which occurring and on approximately himself. It comes throughout as very egotistical,
what it's possible you'll name an existential crisis. And, extra importantly, it is boring. It took me
over every week to learn sixty pages (a very infrequent occurrence) simply because each time I
picked up the e-book in sunlight hours, i could not concentrate on it, and each time I picked it up
at night, I went to sleep in 5 pages or less. I nearly lower back it to the library. i have enjoyed
every thing else i have learn via Calvino-- Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's evening a Traveler,
Cosmicomics-- yet this one was once simply too much. i do not desire a plot, yet I do want a
fascinating topic, and this simply did not do it for me. But, as a result of my prior loves for
Calvino, I pressed on. The final 3rd of the book, known as "The Silences of Mr. Palomar," is
infinitely extra interesting, and provides the ebook a few course by way of truly studying a few of
Mr. Palomar's suggestions and observations past the "what is life? who am I?" form of
questions from before. together with this made me knock my score up a star. Still, i am
disappointed. this can be one I most likely will never reread.
Mercurialgem: I learn this as an publication and very needed to velocity learn via it bc my club
with limitless kindle was once going to run out in a number of days yet desired to squeeze in a
single or books. while i began studying this ebook it was once conversing in regards to the
ocean/the waves/a bare girl at the seashore and it simply wasn't grabbing me (mind you that
this used to be my first Calvino booklet so I had excessive expectancies - I had basically learn
his publication that he wrote relating to his journey to the US).....so i used to be considering in
that very starting that i used to be unlikely to love the e-book bc i did not particularly care
concerning the ocean and the entire philosophical issues he was once asserting yet I stored
examining and the extra I learn it used to be like Ahhh, i am getting IT! I see why humans love
this guy. From the tale of him being in line to shop for cheese (which I laughed whilst it used to
be his flip and he felt the strain from the folk in the back of him in line - I related) or him looking
at these birds or the bug.......I occasionally do an identical and simply stare at creatures/things
and my brain simply is going off during this teach of concepts like he did during this book. this
can be a e-book that i would like to possess bodily and reread back and again.
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