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
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One comes away from this collection of intellectually playful essays...by Italy's foremost modern novelist...inspired to go back and reread the body of his fiction in the light of his reflections on literature. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Italian novelist and short story writer Calvino has been accused of making protons, quarks and living cells talk as if they were people, but here he defends his approach as a kind of animism attuned to the way the universe works. His fascination with myth is evident in pieces on Ovid's Metamorphoses and the separate odysseys that make up Homer's Odyssey. Three intertwined essays on French utopian socialist Fourier present him as a precursor of Women's Lib, a satirist and visionary thinker whose scheme for a society in which each person's desires could be satisfied deserves to be taken seriously. In other pieces, Calvino brings a fresh, unpredictable approach to why we should reread the classics, how cinema and comic strips influence writers, and the cartoon universe of Saul Steinberg. His message is that writers need to establish erotic communion with the humdrum objects of everyday reality. First serial to New York Times Book Review and New York Review of Books. (October
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Marianne Moore, Don Rodrigo, The Charterhouse of Parma, Don Quixote, Roland Barthes, Little Hordes, Definitions of Territories, Fra Cristoforo, Gustave Flaubert, Don Abbondio, French Revolution, Charles Fourier, Madame Bovary, Middle Ages, United States, Lucien Leuwen, New York, Orlando Furioso, Trojan War, Count Mosca, Emma Bovary, Julien Sorel, Milky Way, Revue de Paris, Robinson Crusoe New!
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Marianne Moore, Don Rodrigo, The Charterhouse of Parma, Don Quixote, Roland Barthes, Little Hordes, Definitions of Territories, Fra Cristoforo, Gustave Flaubert, Don Abbondio, French Revolution, Charles Fourier, Madame Bovary, Middle Ages, United States, Lucien Leuwen, New York, Orlando Furioso, Trojan War, Count Mosca, Emma Bovary, Julien Sorel, Milky Way, Revue de Paris, Robinson Crusoe New!
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- The Charterhouse of Parma (Modern Library Classics) by Stendhal on 8 pages
- Lucien Leuwen (Bookmasters) by Stendhal on page 276, page 277, and page 279
- Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Orlando Furioso: A Romantic Epic: Part 1 (Penguin Classics) (Pt. 1) by Ludovico Ariosto on page 162, and page 166
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- Understanding Italo Calvino (Understanding Modern European and Latin American Literature) by Beno Weiss on 12 pages
- Italo Calvino by M. L. McLaughlin on 4 pages
- Writing the Character-Centered Screenplay, Updated and Expanded edition by Andrew Horton on page 101, and page 118
- Reinventing Allegory (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism) by Theresa M. Kelley on page 251, and Back Matter
- The Watcher and Other Stories by Italo Calvino in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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