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    The written world and the unwritten world : essays / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.
    by Calvino, Italo, author.
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    New York ; Boston : Mariner Classics, [2023]
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    9780544146990 (paperback) :
    0544146999 (paperback)
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    ix, 369 pages ; 21 cm
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    First edition.
    Contents: 
    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 Angelo Guglielmi regarding 'The Challenge to the Labyrinth' -- On translation -- Letter from a 'minor' writer -- Sitting-down literature -- Art thefts (conversation with Tullio Pericoli) -- Translating a text is the true way of reading it -- Literature and power (on an essay by 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 Corťs -- Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris -- Carlo Ginzburg, 'Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm' -- Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, La Nouvelle Alliance -- Arnold van Gennep, The Rights of Passage -- Long Journey to the Center of the Brain by Renato and Rosellina Balbi -- Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson -- Giovanni Godoli, The Sun: Story of a Star -- Essay on Love by Ortega y Gasset -- The View from Afar by Claude Ľvi-Strauss -- Pietro Redondi, Galileo Heretic -- Ancient and Modern Ideas of Fate by Giorgio de Santillana.
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    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.
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