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The written world and the unwritten world : essays / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
Van Pelt Library PQ4809.A45 M6613 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calvino, Italo, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto. English
- Language:
- English
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Calvino, Italo--Translations into English.
- Calvino, Italo.
- Writing.
- Reading.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Physical Description:
- 369 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Mariner Classics, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from Italian.
- Summary:
- Available in English for the first time, a collection of essays offering an extraordinary global view of this great Italian master's approach to writing, reading, and interpreting literature.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: READING, WRITING, TRANSLATING
- Good Intentions
- Characters and Names
- The Failure of the Italian Novel
- The Fates of the Novel
- Questions on Realism
- Answers to Nine Questions on the Novel
- Industrial Themes
- Correspondence with Angela Guglieltni Regarding "The Challenge to the Labyrinth"
- On Translation
- Letter from a "Minor" Writer
- Sitting-Down Literature
- Art Thefts / Tullio Pericoli
- Translating a Text Is the True Way of Reading It
- Literature and Power / Alberto Asor Rosa
- The Last Fires
- Gian Carlo Ferretti, Bestseller Italian-Style
- The Written World and the Unwritten World
- A Book, Books
- Why Do You Write?
- ON PUBLISHING
- Notes for a Book Series on Moral Inquiry
- Plan for a Journal
- A New Series, Einaudi's Centopagine Series
- Einaudi Biblioteca Giovani (Einaudi Young People's Library)
- The Mondadori Biblioteca Romantica
- ON THE FANTASTIC
- The Knights of the Grail
- Fantastic Tales of the Nineteenth Century
- Seven Flasks of Tears
- The Fantastic in Italian Literature
- Notturno Italiano
- SCIENCE, HISTORY, ANTHROPOLOGY
- The Genealogical Forest
- Cosmological Models
- Montezuma and Cortes
- Cannibals and Kings / Marvin Harris
- Carlo Ginzburg, "Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm"
- Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers / La Nouvelle Alliance
- Arnold van Gennep, The Rites of Passage
- Long Journey to the Center of the Brain / Rosellina Balbi
- Disturbing the Universe / Freeman Dyson
- Giovanni Godoli, The Sun: Story of a Star
- Essays on Love / Ortegay Gasset
- The View from Afar / Claude Levi-Strauss
- Pietro Redondi / Galileo Heretic
- Ancient and Modern Ideas of Fate / Giorgio de Santillana.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-369).
- ISBN:
- 9780544146990
- 0544146999
- OCLC:
- 910566328
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