Vol. 28 (2022)

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The scrutineer and the Scriptures. Notes on Calvino's Bible

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2023-05-22

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Antonio Sichera

University of Catania

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Calvino Bible body elections relationship

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Sichera, A. (2023). The scrutineer and the Scriptures. Notes on Calvino’s Bible. Italianistica Debreceniensis, 28, 132-145. https://ojs.lib.unideb.hu/itde/article/view/12903

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Abstract

La giornata d’uno scrutatore is a fundamental text in Italo Calvino’s itinerary. It marks a divide between a before and an after. In fact, La giornata is placed between the fairytale Calvino and the ‘cosmicomic’ Calvino as a decisive and scandalous encounter with the reality of the body and with the texts of Scripture, in a strong and almost unthinkable nexus, which makes La giornata d’uno scrutatore a Calvinian unicum. To highlight the connection between the call of the body and the Bible is the task of this essay.

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