The Uses of Literature: EssaysIn 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 |
Contents
Cybernetics and Ghosts | 3 |
Two Interviews on Science and Literature | 28 |
Philosophy and Literature | 39 |
Literature as Projection of Desire | 50 |
Comedy | 62 |
Fantasy | 71 |
Whom Do We Write For? | 81 |
Right and Wrong Political Uses of Literature | 89 |
The Novel as Spectacle | 190 |
Brief Introduction | 213 |
The Controller of Desires | 219 |
Envoi A Utopia of Fine Dust | 245 |
Guide to The Charterhouse of Parma | 256 |
Stendhals Knowledge of the Milky Way | 266 |
Montales Rock | 284 |
The Pen in the First Person | 291 |
Levels of Reality in Literature ΙΟΙ | 101 |
Why Read the Classics? | 125 |
The Odysseys Within the Odyssey | 135 |
Ovid and Universal Contiguity | 146 |
The Structure of Orlando Furioso | 162 |
An Essay in Velocity | 175 |
The City as Protagonist in Balzac | 182 |
In Memory of Roland Barthes | 300 |
The Bestiary of Marianne Moore | 307 |
Man the Sky and the Elephant | 315 |
Cyrano on the Moon | 331 |
By Way of an Autobiography | 339 |
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