A Dream of the Perfect Map – Calvino’s Invisible Cities
The cartographer’s dream is that of a perfect map: a map that perfectly represents a territory, a dream of Divine knowledge; a map that has haunted the ideology of representation throughout history; a map so detailed that it coincides with real space. In a short parable, ‘Museum, on Exactitude in Sc...
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| Main Author: | Mario Vrbančić |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Zadar
2012-06-01
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| Series: | [sic] |
| Online Access: | http://www.sic-journal.org/ArticleView.aspx?aid=126 |
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