Abstract
The essay explores the being-island through a cultural semiotic perspective. After accounting for the intimate tension between finiteness and infinitude, which constantly characterizes the island condition, through the analysis of various experiences and materials, the argument reveals the existence of four vectors of meaning, four fundamental relations: that between the island and the sea, between the island and the continent, of the island with other islands, of the island with itself. These vectors, on the one hand, help to grasp and clarify the historical and phenomenological richness of life of and on the islands. On the other hand, they offer models of spatiality and identity that transcend the mere insular dimension.
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