The Uses of Literature by Italo Calvino

The Uses of Literature

Italo Calvino with Patrick Creagh (Translator)

341 pages paperback 1984

11 editions

nonfiction essays challenging reflective slow-paced
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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 w...

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