In these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself made the selection of pieces to be included in this volume. Translated by Patrick Creagh. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book
Author(s): Italo Calvino
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Year: 1987
Language: English
Pages: 348
City: New York
Tags: Criticism & Theory;History & Criticism;Literature & Fiction
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1
Cybernetics and Ghosts
Two Interviews on Science and Literature
Philosophy and Literature
Literature as Projection of Desire
Definitions of Territories: Comedy
Definitions of Territories: Eroticism
Definitions of Territories: Fantasy
Cinema and the Novel: Problems of Narrative
Whom Do We Write For? of The Hypothetical Bookshelf
Right and Wrong Political Uses of Literature
Levels of Reality in Literature
2
Why Read the Classics?
The Odysseys Within the Odyssey
Ovid and Universal Contiguity
The Structure of Orlando Furioso
Candide: An Essay in Velocity
The City as Protagonist in Balzac
The Novel as Spectacle
Manzoni's The Betrohed: The novel of Ratios of Power
On Fourier. I: Brief Introduction to the Society of Love
On Fourier. II: The Controller of Desires
On Fourier. III: Envoi: A Utopia of Fine Dust
Guide to The Charterhouse of Parma for the Use of New Readers
Stendhal's Knowledge of the "Milky Way"
Montale's Rock
The Pen in the First Person
In Memory of Roland Barthes
The Bestiary of Marianne Moore
Man, the Sky, the Elephant
Cyrano on the Moon
By Way of an Autobiography
Read More From Italo Calvino
About the Author
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