ABSTRACT
The representations of the Sanremo landscape brought together in this chapter have not moved very far from the conventions of nineteenth-century realism. In these texts as in realist fiction, the landscape has a well defined role and function as a field within which the action occurs, in a mimesis of the relation between subject and space in reality. The first appearance of the landscape of Sanremo dates from a story of 1946 entitled 'Uomo nei gerbidi'. It is an account of a hare-hunting expedition with the narrator's father, of the route taken to reach the ideal location and of talk with a local peasant and his daughter while his father has gone off to drive the game out of the wood. Thinking of Kim as the personification in the work of the implied narrator, it may be helpful to note that his reflections surface in the text amidst the shadows of a night walk.
