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The Uses Of Literature

July 29th, 2008
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Recently read: The Uses Of Literature by Italo Calvino

This book collects a number of essays by Calvino and interviews with him about literature. Highlights include Cybernetics and Ghosts, a fascinating essay about literature, man, and the machine, the previously enjoyed The Odysseys Within The Odyssey, and a lovely tribute to Roland Barthes upon his death in 1980. References to Lewis Carroll throughout essays on fantasy and the role of philosophy and ethics in literature are pushing me towards giving him another careful examination soon.

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