"Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a visual source for Calvino's fiction. This recurring theme provides both a link between some very different works and an insight into the autobiographical dimension of an author whose attitude to privacy is protective but detached. This work is an analysis of the criteria of representative (and of representational distortion) of a descriptive motif."

University of Edinburgh) Claudia Nocentini (Lecturer in Italian

Introduction; I: The Realist Landscape; II: The Landscape of the Fairy-Tale; III: Echo Effects; IV: The Inner Landscape