Paths
Memory and narrative
Calvino, the shape of recollection and a voice returning through music: three approaches to shared memory.
Remembering involves giving form to what returns: choosing a scene, arranging words, recognising a voice. This route begins with the study of Calvino, moves to an essay for a general readership and opens onto listening to The Orb. The comparison concerns what happens to a memory when it is narrated or taken up by others. The book develops the philosophical argument; the article and blog note offer shorter entries, each linked to its original editorial context.
3 steps
I fondovalle della memoria: Italo Calvino tra narrazione, neuroni e filosofia
Open the reading ↗Begin with Calvino’s autobiographical and Resistance writings to examine the distance between experience, recollection and writing.
Imagination in the service of memory
Open the reading ↗Revisit the relationship between memory and invention in a shorter article, available from its original publication.
From the archive · Inhabiting someone else’s memory
Open the reading ↗Move from the page to listening: a recorded voice raises the question of how a memory can enter other people’s experience.