Memory of the World (SCIFICT.REPORT)

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The Memory Of the

World

Italo Calvino1968

Sunday, August 7, 2011


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!"#$%&'#$()*%October 15, 1923 - September 19, 1985

born in Santiago de Las Vegas, a suburb ofHavana, Cuba

His family is in to Science and in Agriculture, especially his father

He is a fan ofRudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book as a child;

Calvino felt that his early interest in stories made him the "black sheep" of his family

He became an Italian writer,journalist and novelist

Through his two autobiographical essays, Calvino described himself as

"atheist" and his outlook as "non-religious"



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!"#$%&'#$()*%According to Calvino, he went through intellectual depression

because of Vittorinis death;

"...I ceased to be young. Perhaps it's a metabolic process,

something that comes with age, I'd been young for a long

time, perhaps too long, suddenly I felt that I had to begin my

old age, yes, old age, perhaps with the hope of prolonging it bybeginning it early."

Calvino died in Santa Maria dela Scalla hospital because of cerebral

hemorrhage

Lionised in Britain and the United States: most-translated contemporary

Italian writer at the time of his death, and a noted contender for the Nobel

Prize for Literature



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!"#$%&'#$()*%Authors whom Calvino helped publish

Mario Rigoni Stern Gianni Celati

Andrea De Carlo

Daniele Del Giudice

Leonardo Sciascia

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Best known works

If on a winter's night a traveler

(1979).

Invisible Cities

(1972)

The Cosmicomics collection ofshort stories

(1965)

Our Ancestors trilogy

(19521959)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics%22%20%5Co%20%22Cosmicomicshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmicomics%22%20%5Co%20%22Cosmicomics


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Films on Italo Calvino

Damian Pettigrew, Inside Italo (Lo specchio di Calvino, 2011)

Feature-length docufiction co-produced by ARTE France, Italy's Ministero per iBeni e le Attivit Culturali, and the National Film Board of Canada.

Starring Neri Marcor as the famous Italian writer, the film uses in-depth

conversations videotaped at Calvino's Rome penthouse a year before his

death in 1985 and rare footage from INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel),RAI, and BBC television archives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAI%22%20%5Co%20%22RAIhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%22%20%5Co%20%22BBChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neri_Marcor%C3%A8%22%20%5Co%20%22Neri%20Marcor%C3%8Bhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%22%20%5Co%20%22BBChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC%22%20%5Co%20%22BBChttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAI%22%20%5Co%20%22RAIhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAI%22%20%5Co%20%22RAIhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_national_de_l'audiovisuel%22%20%5Co%20%22Institut%20national%20de%20l'audiovisuelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_national_de_l'audiovisuel%22%20%5Co%20%22Institut%20national%20de%20l'audiovisuelhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neri_Marcor%C3%A8%22%20%5Co%20%22Neri%20Marcor%C3%8Bhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neri_Marcor%C3%A8%22%20%5Co%20%22Neri%20Marcor%C3%8Bhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docufiction%22%20%5Co%20%22Docufictionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Docufiction%22%20%5Co%20%22Docufiction


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Awards

1946 L'Unit Prize (shared with Marcello Venturi) for the short story,Minefield(Campo di mine)

1947 Riccione Prize for The Path to the Nest of Spiders

1952 Saint-Vincent Prize1957 Viareggio Prize for The Baron in the Trees

1959 Bagutta Prize

1960 Salento Prize for Our Ancestors

1963 International Charles Veillon Prize forThe Watcher

1970 Asti Prize

1972 Feltrinelli Prize for Invisible Cities

1976 Austrian State Prize for European Literature

1981 Legion of Honour

1982 World Fantasy Award - Life Achievement

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%22%20%5Co%20%22World%20Fantasy%20Awardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%22%20%5Co%20%22World%20Fantasy%20Awardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%22%20%5Co%20%22World%20Fantasy%20Awardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%22%20%5Co%20%22World%20Fantasy%20Awardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Honour%22%20%5Co%20%22Legion%20of%20Honourhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_State_Prize_for_European_Literature%22%20%5Co%20%22Austrian%20State%20Prize%20for%20European%20Literaturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feltrinelli_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Feltrinelli%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feltrinelli_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Feltrinelli%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities%22%20%5Co%20%22Invisible%20Citieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Ancestors%22%20%5Co%20%22Our%20Ancestorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Ancestors%22%20%5Co%20%22Our%20Ancestorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagutta_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Bagutta%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viareggio_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Viareggio%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viareggio_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Viareggio%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_in_the_Trees%22%20%5Co%20%22The%20Baron%20in%20the%20Treeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_the_Nest_of_Spiders%22%20%5Co%20%22The%20Path%20to%20the%20Nest%20of%20Spidershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%22%20%5Co%20%22World%20Fantasy%20Awardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Fantasy_Award%22%20%5Co%20%22World%20Fantasy%20Awardhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Honour%22%20%5Co%20%22Legion%20of%20Honourhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legion_of_Honour%22%20%5Co%20%22Legion%20of%20Honourhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_State_Prize_for_European_Literature%22%20%5Co%20%22Austrian%20State%20Prize%20for%20European%20Literaturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_State_Prize_for_European_Literature%22%20%5Co%20%22Austrian%20State%20Prize%20for%20European%20Literaturehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities%22%20%5Co%20%22Invisible%20Citieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities%22%20%5Co%20%22Invisible%20Citieshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feltrinelli_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Feltrinelli%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feltrinelli_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Feltrinelli%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Ancestors%22%20%5Co%20%22Our%20Ancestorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Ancestors%22%20%5Co%20%22Our%20Ancestorshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagutta_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Bagutta%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagutta_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Bagutta%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_in_the_Trees%22%20%5Co%20%22The%20Baron%20in%20the%20Treeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baron_in_the_Trees%22%20%5Co%20%22The%20Baron%20in%20the%20Treeshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viareggio_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Viareggio%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viareggio_Prize%22%20%5Co%20%22Viareggio%20Prizehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_the_Nest_of_Spiders%22%20%5Co%20%22The%20Path%20to%20the%20Nest%20of%20Spidershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Path_to_the_Nest_of_Spiders%22%20%5Co%20%22The%20Path%20to%20the%20Nest%20of%20Spidershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Unit%C3%A0%22%20%5Co%20%22L'Unit%E2%80%A1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'Unit%C3%A0%22%20%5Co%20%22L'Unit%E2%80%A1


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The Memory Of the Worldcharacters.setting.plot

Italo Calvinos



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Setting and Characters

Mullersuccessor

will be appointed as the Organizations new Director

Directorhandles the Organization

AngelaWife of the Director

Setting was inside the Directors Office.Sunday, August 7, 2011


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Plot

Organizationthe largest database in the world.

files supposed to record everything that isknown about people, animals and things.

Org. Director talks to Mullerhis successor

and to be appointed as the new Director

talked about:SECRETS, GOALS and PLANS of the Organization

CENTRAL MEMORYALL Information (condensed, miniature)



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Plot

GOAL: for the End of the Worldpass on what we know to others

there must be creatures like us somewhere in the millions of unknown planets.COMMUNICATING the memory to them

Extra galactical archeologists may reach the relics of our planet.

Mans ExtinctionImportance of Information . Language . Infos arent wasted

Disregard all that would confuse and overshadow other, moreessential things

(would create chaos and noise rather than communication)

Director can have a personal stamp on the Memory of the World.



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Plot

LIESlies are the only real information we can communicatemoderate use of lies whenever they would simplify the message

rather than complicating it.

AngelaImage of a happy couple (great romance, in the memory of the world Angelas image is

definite and perfect)

Suspicious

Erased the records people (colleagues)Angela (and even Angela herself)had intimate relations with

correcting the memory of the world by matching it with the world of the living.



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Different Themes

End of the World (Apocalypse)

Preserving the memory

Post Apocalyptic

Language and Communication



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Post Apocalyptic



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Post Apocalyptic

set in a world or civilization after such a disaster.

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Post Apocalyptic

the late 1940s and 50sdarker approach has emerged in Science Fiction towards the post apocalyptic idea - a

world, which had experienced the World War II

There has been a decline in positive, utopian visions of the future and an

increase particularly in Science Fiction - of visions of imminent decline and

disaster

Human-causedend to the civilization - more powerful and sensible than a

natural catastrophe

Mankind has experienced the threat of natural disasters and plagues and even though

of a possible collision with a comet, but has never been this close to its own destruction

by a war.



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Post Apocalyptic

post-holocaust and post-catastrophe(before)

the films after 1950s use the term post-apocalyptic

Apocalypse in Science Fiction = mirror theme for the fear of the uncontrollable

consequences of the human evolution

The overwhelming acceleration of the technological developments

and globalization

central cause for post-apocalyptic theories in the second half of the 20 th century.

The society structure in post-apocalyptic movies are para l le lt o t he i r t ime o f mak i n g and t he i r bud ge t . A l so , t h e

ama l g ama t i o n o f t h e primitive and advanced tools and vehicles, depict

both regression and progression in the post -apoca lypse technology.



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Post Apocalyptic

The Georgia Guidestones may be the most enigmatic monument in the US: huge slabs ofgranite, inscribed with directions for rebuilding civilization after the apocalypse. Only one man knowswho created themand he's not talking.



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M O V I E

The Book

of Eli

The 6th Day



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The Book of Eli

A post-apocalyptic tale, in which a loneman fights his way across America in

order to protect a sacred book that holdsthe secrets to saving humankind.

March 2010

Starring:

Denzel Washington

Mila KunisRay Stevenson

Directed by:Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

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The 6th DayFuturistic action about a man whomeets a clone of himself and stumblesinto a grand conspiracy about clones

taking over the world.

January 2001

Starring:Arnold Schwarzenegger

Michael RapaportTony Goldwyn

Directed by:Roger Spottiswoode
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