Research On Calvino's Ecological Thought

As a novelist with great charm and research value, the ecological thought contained in Italo Calvino's fictions is rich,profound and unique,which could be constructively researched from the three aspects of natural ecology,urban ecology and spiritual ecology.Calvino's natural ecology thought is magnificent and profound,the expansion of whose fictions's space includes an expansion of natural awareness, whose cosmology is an ecological one of systematic, complexly interrelated, evolutive and nonanthropocent- ric,whose way to comprehend nature is a way of ecophenomeno-logy. Calvino's urban ecology thought consist of his criticism on the relationship between city and nature, the city itself and the relationship between city and spirit: industrialization and instrumental reason cause environmental pollution and ecocatastrophe in city, duplicate buildings and commercial sight make city an undifferentiated labyrinth, the urban closeness besiege the emotional needs of nature, and its symbolization defilade the cognition of reality. Calvino expressed his insight and care for spiritual ecology of modern people,which he thought is dissociated and unbalanced, human spirit as an transcendent intention and psychic order, could and should transcend the confusion and heaviness of reality.