Imagens da modernidade líquida de Bauman em duas cidades invisíveis de Calvino

Abstract

Literature and sociology are different narratives about the human condition in permanent dialogue, according to sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. In several passages of his work, he resorts to literary art to explain his conception of the current society - a liquid society. This article explores this relation by focusing on two of the invisible cities, described by the traveler Marco Polo, in Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities. It seeks to show how the cities of Leonia and Eutropia are rich in insights to reflect on the condition of the individual in increasingly liquid times. Bauman himself mentions these cities in his reflections. We try to explore features of the mentioned cities in order to discuss aspects of our contemporary liquid condition.