Bloom often writes of characters "overhearing" themselves, but Calvino makes Mr Palomar "overlook" himself, finding:We can know nothing about what is outside us, if we overlook ourselves. The road left open to him is this: he will devote himself from now on to the knowing of himself, he will explore his own inner geography, he will draw the diagram of the moods of his spirit, he will derive from it formulas and theories, he will train his telescope on the orbits of the course of his life rather than those of the constellations.Here is where I made the connection with Bloom. 107):The universe can perhaps go tranquilly about its business he surely cannot. What I discovered was that Mr Palomar was self-aware, to the point where he is conscious of his failings yet continues to deceive himself. Yet as the stories progress, Calvino's wisdom shines through as I began to identify with Palomar and to see his own wisdom beyond his apparent social ineptitude. At first, Mr Palomar appears to be suffering from some kind of introverted social awkwardness.
107), where literature in sum forms "an imaginary outline or meaningful pattern" not in the sky, but in the mind. I have often read of literary "constellations" (p.
Show More book focuses on a particular activity of Mr Palomar's in various locations, with each story within the theme based around a particular sub-theme.
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