The uses of literature : essays / Italo Calvino ; translated by Patrick Creagh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calvino, Italo.

Standardized Title:

Pietra sopra. English

Language:

English

Italian

Subjects (All):

Literature.

Physical Description:

vi, 341 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, [1986]

Contents:

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?, or 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 betrothed: 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, and the elephant

Cyrano on the moon.

Notes:

Translation of: Una pietra sopra.

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Online version: Calvino, Italo. Pietra sopra. English. Uses of literature.

ISBN:

0151932050

9780151932054

OCLC:

13333569