Applied Poststructuralism. Italo Calvino's "A Sign in Space"

Essay from the year 2019 in the subject Literature - Modern Literature, grade: B, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, language: English, abstract: This essay tries to apply the poststructuralist viewpoint onto Italo Calvino’s book "The complete cosmicomics". According to Barry (2017), the poststructuralists look into paradoxes and uncertainties as they think that signs’ meanings depend on the pe...