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Italo Calvino The Uses of Literature (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Uses of Literature
- Publication Name
- The Uses of Literature
- Title
- The Uses of Literature
- Subtitle
- Essays
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 0156932504
- EAN
- 9780156932509
- ISBN
- 9780156932509
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Genre
- Literary Criticism
- Release Date
- 21/10/1987
- Release Year
- 1987
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publication Year
- 1987
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Topic
- Comparative Literature, Shakespeare, General, Semiotics & Theory
- Item Width
- 5.3in
- Item Weight
- 10 oz
- Number of Pages
- 348 Pages
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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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Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0156932504
ISBN-13
9780156932509
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59868
Product Key Features
Book Title
Uses of Literature
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Comparative Literature, Shakespeare, General, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year
1987
Genre
Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
348 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.3in
Item Weight
10 oz
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Pq4809.A45
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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., 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.
Copyright Date
1987
Dewey Decimal
800
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
19
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