Fiaba Di Italo Calvino Professional Bakers Alone
If the heroine arrives, poor and desolate, at a baker's and takes a place there, Messia's language is so completely that of the trade that you would believe that the baking of bread had been her business, whereas at Palermo this occupation, an ordinary one in the families of the large and small communes of the island, is that of professional bakers alone The reader will only find the cold and naked words but Messia's narration consists, more than in words, in the restless movement of the eyes, in the waving of the arms, in the gestures of the whole person, which rises, walks around the room, bends, and is again uplifted, making her voice now soft, now excited, now fearful, now sweet, now hoarse, as it portrays the voices of the various personages, and the action which these are performing.Problem 2: The question of dialect and the difficulty in giving a stylistic and methodological unity to such a collection of varied stories.Expressivity and vitality of local dialectsEfforts to preserve local taste and colour while maintaining a stylistic unity.Problem 3: Calvino as writer and philologist/translator Calvino does notforgethe is asophisticatedwriterand scholaractingon the heterogeneousimageof the Italian folktale as it was offeredby anthologieswritten indialect andalreadyremoved from the oral folkcontext.His collection reflects, quite consciously,neither theperspectiveofaspecializedobservernor that of the subordinate observedworld,but that of an amateur diver-writer who is opento riskingtheunexpectedinasubmerged,bothfamiliar andmysterious,world.Cristina BacchilegaMake tales more interesting for modern taste and accessibleTranslation: 166 The Berbers Timepiece (Inland near Palermo) Calvinos eight narrative interventionsAcceleration of the tempi in storytelling including the shortening of episodes and descriptions, the elimination of narrative redundanciesAcceleration: 159 Bejeweled Boot (Palermo) 2. If the tale turns upon a vessel which has to make a voyage, she utters, without remarking it, or without seeming to do so, sailors' phrases, and words which only seamen and those who have to do with seamen are acquainted with. This is a characteristic to which I call my readers' attention.
The episode about the horse informing to Bobo his father order of murdering him Calvinos invention27: The Land Where No One DiesVarious lengths of mens beard were added by CalvinoUrashima Taro (Japan) Lankeshan Ji (Rotten Ax Handle: China), The Dragon Woman of Lake Dong Ting (China)148: Grttula-Beddttula (Palermo) told by Agatuzza MessiaSicilian Cinderella Story No slipper motifNo moralizing like those in Charles Perraults La petite pantoufle de verre (1697) and Brothers Grimm fairytales.Hachikazuki from Japanese Otogizshi150: Pippina the Serpent (Palermo) told by Agatuzza Messia160: The Dove Girl (Palermo) Calvino intervened with the tale heavily changing and adding narrative and descriptions.Hagoromo (Japan) a celestial maiden is compelled to be the wife of the man who hides her feather robe.165: Jesus and St. Variation of nonsense rhymes or versesConclusionCalvino as a creative storytellerBy freely changing and altering folklore texts, he revived them for his readers non-folklore specialist Italians.Defining time for Italian national identity in the post WWII period?116 The False Grandmother read by John Turturro Fiabe Italiane from AbruzzoQuestions:What are the main, recurring motifs of the stories?Did you notice how universal some of the stories are?If we assume that consciously or unconsciously Calvino was defining Italian identity what was it?23: Animal Speech (Mantua)A man who understands animal speech will be Pope a European superstition. Substitution of a detail, the final remark, and replacement for another.8. Invention of details, verses, names, tones or conclusion.7. Addition of details, phrases, remarks, specifications and narrative links6. Emphasis of a detail, suspense, description and element.Emphasis of a detail: 85 Apple Girl (Firenze)4.
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