«If you want to describe a place, describe it completely, not as a momentary appearance but as a portion of space that has a form, a sense and a reason, you must represent it crossed by the dimension of time, you must represent everything in this space that it moves, of a very rapid motion or with inexorable slowness: all the elements that this space contains or has contained in its past, present and future relationships».
Italo Calvino, 1974
Se si vuole descrivere un luogo, descriverlo completamente, non come un’apparenza momentanea ma come una porzione di spazio che ha una forma, un senso e un perché, bisogna rappresentarlo attraversato dalla dimensione del tempo, bisogna rappresentare tutto ciò che in questo spazio si muove, di un moto rapidissimo o con inesorabile lentezza: tutti gli elementi che questo spazio contiene o ha contenuto nelle sue relazioni passate, presenti e future.
Italo Calvino, 1974
«If you want to describe a place, describe it completely, not as a momentary appearance but as a portion of space that has a form, a sense and a reason, you must represent it crossed by the dimension of time, you must represent everything in this space that it moves, of a very rapid motion or with inexorable slowness: all the elements that this space contains or has contained in its past, present and future relationships».
Italo Calvino, 1974
