The Uses of Literature
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"This statement, "I write" (or "I am writing"), is connected with the whole field of problems — particularly fertile in this century — concerning what has been called metaliterature, and the analogous problems of metatheatre, metapainting, ..." --"Levels of Reality in Literature" (1980) by Italo Calvino |
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The Uses of Literature (1980, 1982, Punto y aparte: ensayos sobre literatura y sociedad) is a collection of essays by Italo Calvino.
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List of essays
- 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
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