Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders: Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities Around the World...

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Elio Baldi Cecilia Schwartz

Circulation, Translation and Reception Across Borders

Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities Around the World

Elio Baldi, Cecilia Schwartz

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Routledge
06 May 2025

Translation & interpretation; Literary studies: general

Series: Routledge Studies in Literary Translation

This volume offers a detailed analysis of selected cases in the reception, translation and artistic reinterpretation of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) around the world.

The book traces the many different ways in which Calvino's modern classic has been read, translated and adapted in Brazil, France, the Netherlands and Flanders, Mexico, Romania, Scandinavia, the USSR, China, Poland, Japan and Australia. It also offers analyses of the relation between Calvino's book and, respectively, the East and Africa, as well as reflections on the book's inspiration for, and resonance in, dance, architecture and art. The volume thus traces the diversity in the reception and circulation of Invisible Cities in different countries and continents, offering a much wider framework for the discussion of Calvino’s masterpiece than before, and a more detailed picture of its cultural and linguistic ramifications.

This book will be of interest to scholars in Comparative Literature, World Literature, Translation Studies, Italian Studies, Romance Languages, European Studies, Dance, Architecture and Media Studies, as well as to scholars specialised in paratext and reception.

Edited by: Elio Baldi, Cecilia Schwartz
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781032277684
ISBN 10: 1032277688
Series: Routledge Studies in Literary Translation
Pages: 306
Publication Date: 06 May 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Elio Baldi is Assistant Professor in Romance languages and cultures at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Cecilia Schwartz is Professor of Italian at Stockholm University, Sweden.