Il broglio metafisico: lacci del pensiero, urgenze della volontà nella città invisibile del Cottolengo

In this long story that marks a turning point also in his own production, Calvino focuses not so much on disability in itself, but on the relationship in which it inevitably involves the other from himself, that other from whose alienated perspective we read the facts of the tale. Thus, the author guides the reader to a meditation on inalienability, on the sealing of human essence, on human nature as a fact that, in its many forms, imposes itself on the considerations of the intellect but especially to the responses of the will. It is a will that must transfigured, which is an expression not only of the self, but also, and above all, of the renunciation of self-affirmation. The interrogative style, the attitude to progressively approach the heart of the issues, the expressive forms through which the author pushes the reader to a reversal of the gaze on the boundaries of the idea of ​​disability are the privileged object of these analyzes