The Uses of Literature
by Italo Calvino
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Read in October, 2007
While I might not always agree with or even understand Calvino's perspectives, he always makes me think. Even in an essay that I have to read four times to understand, there are at least one or two gems of thought.
His work requires that I read carefully and slowly, but that is not all bad for someone who tends to gulp wholesale.
In this collection, he repeats his famous essay -- derived from a university lecture he had given -- "Why Read The Classics?" If for no other reason than ...more
His work requires that I read carefully and slowly, but that is not all bad for someone who tends to gulp wholesale.
In this collection, he repeats his famous essay -- derived from a university lecture he had given -- "Why Read The Classics?" If for no other reason than ...more
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Read in August, 2007
Italo Calvino is my Number One MySpace Friend. It's an illustrious position to hold and one that I do not take lightly. These essays make my brain mushy in the best possible way. I think I want to have his posthumous literary metaphorical babies. Never mind N'Sync, where can I get a poster of Calv?
Really, though, any one of these essays is worth the price of admission alone.
Really, though, any one of these essays is worth the price of admission alone.
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Got this at the used bookstore. Someday I'll have time to read a book that is not Beowulf, and on that glorious day, this perhaps.
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I re-read his essay "Why Read the Classics?" every three or four months. It helps remind me why I love reading and re-reading.
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Read in January, 1990
This collection of essays provides a major framework for how I view the act of reading/information networks.
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So far I'm a big fan of:
Cybernetics and Ghosts
The Hypothetical Bookshelf
Cybernetics and Ghosts
The Hypothetical Bookshelf
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Read in April, 2008
Loved it. He is humorous and pretty easy to follow.
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