Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Author:Italo Calvino
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Feedbooks
Published: 1993-08-25T06:00:00+00:00

vives? cette géométrie de ma souffrance? Il y a de ces éclairs qui ressemblent tout à fait à des idées. Ils font comprendre—d'ici, jusque-là … Et pourtant ils me laissent incertain. Incertain n'est pas le mot… Quand cela va venir, je trouve en moi quelque chose de confus ou de diffus. Il se fait dans mon être des endroits … brumeux, il y a des étendues qui font leur apparition. Alors, je prends dans ma mémoire une question, un problème quelconque … Je m'y enfonce. Je compte des grains de sable … et, tant que je les vois … — Ma douleur grossissante me force à l'observer. J'y pense!—Je n'attends que mon cri … et dès que je l'ai entendu—Yobjet, le terrible objet, devenant plus petit, et encore plus petit, se dérobe à ma vue intérieure." (Gallimard edition, 1946, pp. 32-33)

"It is nothing … much," he said. "Nothing but… a tenth of a second appearing … Wait… At certain moments my body is illuminated … It is very curious. Suddenly I see into myself … I can make out the depths of the layers of my flesh; and I feel zones of pain … rings, poles, plumes of pain. Do you see these living forms, this geometry of my suffering? Some of these flashes are exactly like ideas. They make me understand—from here, to there … And yet they leave me uncertain. Uncertain is not the word … When it is about to appear, I find in myself something confused or diffused. Areas that are … hazy occur inside me, wide spaces come into view. Then I choose a question from my memory, any problem at all … I plunge into it. I count grains of sand … and as long as I can see them … But increasing pain forces me to observe it. I think about it! I only await my cry … and as soon as I have heard it—the object, the terrible object, getting smaller, and still smaller, vanishes from my inner sight."

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