Calvino Fable The Composition Of The World

Italo Calvino is one of the most influential Italian writers after World Warâ…¡.His lifetime creations and literature theories full of fresh tone and contradictions.Through the view point of postmodern allegory,this dissertation explored the whole veins of Calvino's allegory style.Developed from ancient times to the present,the allegory has been transforming from a literary form to a organic pattern by which modern writers observe and comprehend the world.Postmodern allegory showed its division,metaphor,fragmentary features that could totally reflect the contradictions and wide horizon delivered in Calvino's creations.This dissertation systematized the development process of Calvino's allegory style. From the early new realism novels to later postmodern allegory,Calvino never stopped changing his novel style of those typical experiment postmodern methods,such as intertexture,signifies and open text.But there are still some constant clues as those examinations on the living circumstances of modern men,the observations towards the form of society,history and comics,as well as the pursuing to extreme-text that pervaded his whole life creations.