When “the Other” and “the One” Are the Two Halves of “the Same”. The Case of Il Visconte Dimezzato by Italo Calvino

Barrado Belmar, Mari Carmen and Filología, Facultad De (2022) When “the Other” and “the One” Are the Two Halves of “the Same”. The Case of Il Visconte Dimezzato by Italo Calvino. Open Journal of Philosophy, 12 (04). pp. 531-540. ISSN 2163-9434

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Abstract

The subject of “The Other”, the different one always generated conflicts more or less serious in the history of humanity, without proposals of any resolution. In the measure in that The Other questions, by similitude or by difference, the identity in which the subject is sustained, that questioning make unstable that precarious construction, and because of this, it converts itself in the opposer. In this study, we will find, in the text of Il Visconte Dimezzato by Italo Calvino, the subject of the Otherness/Alterity, analyzing from the semiotic point of view the reactions and behaviors of each one of the two characters and of the members of the society in which they live. The starting point of the story by Italo Calvino is that in a war between Austria and the Turks, the Viscount Medardo di Terralba as a consequence of a canon shot remains divided vertically into two halves and both halves survive. One of the two halves is very bad and the other is very good. Each one of the two halves sees in the other one “The Other”, feeling itself “The One” but incomplete and desiring to turn to be “The Same” as it was before being divided by the canon shot.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: OA Digital Library > Social Sciences and Humanities
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Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2023 08:09
Last Modified: 24 May 2024 05:55
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