The uses of literature : essays /
Italo Calvino ; translated by Patrick Creagh.
- vi, 341 pages ; 22 cm
Translation of: Una pietra sopra.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 -- 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. 1. 2.