Research Catalog

Title

The written world and the unwritten world : essays / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Author

Calvino, Italo

Publication

• New York : Mariner Classics, [2023]
• ©2023

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Details

Additional Authors

Goldstein, Ann, 1949-

Description

ix, 369 pages; 21 cm

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto. English

Alternative Title

Mondo scritto e mondo non scritto.

Subject

• Calvino, Italo > Translations into English
• Calvino, Italo
• Writing
• Reading
• Literature

Genre/Form

• Essays.
• Translations.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In English, translated from Italian.

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 Cortés -- 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 Lévi-Strauss -- Pietro Redondi, Galileo Heretic -- Ancient and Modern Ideas of Fate by Giorgio de Santillana.

Call Number

JFD 23-1046

ISBN

• 9780544146990
• 0544146999

OCLC

910566328

Author

Calvino, Italo, author.

Title

The written world and the unwritten world : essays / Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein.

Publisher

New York : Mariner Classics, [2023]

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Language

In English, translated from Italian.

Added Author

Goldstein, Ann, 1949- translator.

Research Call Number

JFD 23-1046