Sguardi da leggere. "La giornata d’uno scrutatore" di Italo Calvino

Abstract

The essay proposes a reading of the book La giornata d'uno scrutatore, interpreting the path of Amerigo Ormea as the story of an education for the gaze. The protagonist of the book gradually learns to "read" the looks of others; His parable is conflicted with the affair of Amedeo Oliva, protagonist of the adventure of a reader, who vice versa, at the end of the story, proves unable to read the looks, and life.