Regard sur l’image
La Spirale
Text by Italo Calvino and images by Hervé Bernard
This setting of Italo Calvino’s La Spirale (the story of nature’s invention of vision) is inspired by Surrealism, with a particular affection for Dali and Max Ernst, but also by Oulipo, as illustrating a text is a form of constrained creation... and by my previous work Regard sur l’image.
« This short story by Italo Calvino presents the history of living beings over fifty million years, in other words, our history. The narrator, a living being, appears at certain points in the text as a demiurge who has invented and created everything, endowed with both absolute memory and total perception, like a god who is one and multiple at the same time. Rather, he is the singular embodiment of a consciousness in the process of forming itself, recalling from the present the global history of its formation. This consciousness is both individual and common to all. It exists from a »place" encompassing all possible places, i.e., a body.
As is often the case with Calvino, this character with the enigmatic name Qfwfq could be said to be born of text, words and even letters, and to live as a text within a text. But above all, he is a kind of metaphor for the history of life and thought." [https://www.regard-sur-limage.com/Notes-sur-La-Spirale-d-Italo-Calvino.html]
This book is in French.
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