Circulation Translation and Reception Across Borders

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