A Dream of the Perfect Map – Calvino’s Invisible Cities

The cartographer’s dream is that of a perfect map: a map that perfectly represents a territory, a dream of Divine knowledge; a map that has haunted the ideology of representation throughout history; a map so detailed that it coincides with real space. In a short parable, ‘Museum, on Exactitude in Sc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mario Vrbančić
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Zadar 2012-06-01
Series:[sic]
Online Access:http://www.sic-journal.org/ArticleView.aspx?aid=126