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Italo Calvino (1992), con l’intento di offrire sei proposte sull’arte della scrittura, espone in questo paragrafo un argomento a favore della visibilità. Egli mette in contrasto il visibile con lo scritto, l’immagine concepita con l’espressione verbale. Il suo argomento non riguarda la scelta di uno piuttosto che dell’altro, ma riguarda invece il favorire lo spostamento dall’espressione scritta all’immaginato, in maniera da imparare a ricavare “colori e forme” dal testo scritto, piuttosto che cercare di estrarre dall’immagine qualche tipo di interpretazione verbale o addirittura “equivalente”. L’immaginazione, sostiene Calvino, non è tanto uno “strumento di conoscenza”, in grado di aiutare a trovare soluzioni che sfuggano alle risorse della lingua, quanto piuttosto un’“identificazione con l’anima del mondo”, che tende l’orecchio verso le immaginie le sta ad ascoltare. Il messaggio di Calvino è diretto agli scrittori, specialmente a quelli di racconti di fantasia.
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Sinclair, N., Pimm, D. (2008). Alcune osservazioni intorno all’estetica, lo stile e la visibilità nella matematica. In: Emmer, M. (eds) matematica e cultura 2008. Matematica e cultura. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-0794-9_17
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