In Calvino's narrative the explicit defines a space towards which the ‘noise’ of the world moves forward to menace the order of fiction. Il cielo di pietra (The Stone Sky), Un re in ascolto (A King Listens) – both devoted to the value of singing compared to 20th century metropolis' chaotic pandemonium – and the epilogue of Le città invisibili (Invisible Cities) represent the last boundary from which the writer considers his community and the redeeming power of words. Silence is here at the same time the premise and the movement towards which every writing should tend.Nella produzione narrativa di Italo Calvino l’explicit può circoscrivere lo spazio verso cui il 'rumore' del mondo s’avanza a minacciare l’ordine della finzione – e, viceversa,...