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In Calvino’s works, the best fruits of contemporary scientific and anthropological disciplines become transferred to the field of literature, and challenge existing generic conventions in different ways, thereby creating experimental hybrids between non-fiction and fiction. Clearly, Calvino’s stated preference for the short story derives from its flexibility, since it is simultaneously open to genres such as non-fiction and fiction. Furthermore, the short story does not exclude the novel. On the contrary, by using the short story the novel sews together a network of representations and possible parallel universes, thus shaping a kind of network novel. This form of network novel, consisting of real and possible worlds, seems to be the best way of sustaining an encyclopedic re-description of the world and its potentialities. Additionally for Calvino, the best representation of this interdependent multiplicity is the city; his work’s deepest impulse is a new cultural map ranging from the geographic and scientific to the economic and philosophic, instituting a re-representation of the world in the conditions of the new hyper-environment made of space and knowledge. The very idea of the network novel suggests both a map and a continuity between episodes and fragments, inhabited by a kind of a network human being who is capable of stitching together their own fragments and properly holding the multiplicity.
Contents. Plot The Nonexistent Knight is set in the time of, and draws material from the literary cycle known as the, referencing 's. Agilulf is a righteous, perfectionist, faithful and pious knight who does not exist. Inside his empty armour is an echoing voice that reverberates through the metal. Nevertheless, he serves the army of a Christian king out of 'goodwill and faith in the holy cause'.
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Themes Agilulf exists only as the fulfilment of the rules and protocols of knighthood. This theme is strongly connected to modern conditions: Agilulf has been described as 'the symbol of the 'robotized' man, who performs bureaucratic acts with near-absolute unconsciousness.' The romance satirises Agilulf as the ideal man yet nonexistent along with many suggestions that Sister Theodora is making up most of the story. In the end, she understands that such a perfect knight could live only in one's imagination. The idea of confusion of one's own identity with others and the outside world continued to be developed in Calvino's later works. Reception The Nonexistent Knight was collected together with and in a single volume, for which Calvino was awarded the Salento Prize in 1960. The book was adapted into an animated film by Italian director in 1970.
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