Calvino interprete della fiaba e rappresentante dello strutturalismo

The terms "fairytale" and "fabulous" can be associated with Calvino's work from the very beginning and the aspect that brings him closer to the fairytale than any other is that of having as the task of his own narration/narration, humanity, personal identity: many fairytales in fact have as their protagonist a young man, or even a child, and it is precisely from a child, from the Pin from Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, the entire calvinian narration will start. Moreover, the writer highlights the educational peculiarity of the fairy tale, which cannot be found in its content, or rather, not only in the fact of hearing and telling them. The fairytale is perhaps the genre that remains dominant, even within the different genres traversed by Calvino: it arouses his interest both for the correspondence with his fantastic vein that is evident from the Sentiero, and for the studies of structuralists, Propp and Greimas in particular. The article thus aims to reread the figure of Calvino through these two components, fabulous on the one hand and structuralism on the other, trying to highlight how the immersion in the territories of the fabulous, with the publication of Fiabe italiane, have somehow "contaminated" his subsequent writing, feeding that fantastic vein that has always characterized it, up to those works markedly linked to the participation to structuralism and semiology.