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In the attempts to understand narcissism, starting from Freud’s introduction of this concept, there are several perspectives, all beginning with the fragile image reflected under the pressure of seeking truth, presumed reality beyond what is reflected.
What is the path to truth? Is truth the result of discovery or construction? Who has access to truth? Who can testify to truth? These are questions I embarked on alongside Italo Calvino and his book “The Nonexistent Knight”.
Several reviews regarding “The Nonexistent Knight”, one of Calvino’s books alongside “The Baron in the Trees” and “The Cloven Viscount”, which brought him international recognition, have been written. The most intriguing, paradoxically, was written by the author himself, appearing on page 4 of the Romanian edition published by Univers in 1999, under the pseudonym Tonio Cavilla: “This time, the author has delved further into the past, through centuries, and his novel unfolds among Charlemagne’s paladins, in that Middle Ages beyond any historical or geographic plausibility, a characteristic feature of chivalric poems”.