A listening eye: Italo Calvino's universe as sound in 'Under the Jaguar Sun'

Calvino's literary creation, except inasmuch as Under the Jaguar Sun, on th e five senses, lacks stories on sight and touch, seems all eye. Unless, as a re-reading of Calvino's work through the auditory prism of "A King All Ea rs" in that same work shows, such a perception is that of a hurried reader- who needs to take the time to hear Calvino's eye as a listening one.