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  <title><![CDATA[The Uses of Literature]]></title>
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  <default_description>One comes away from this collection of intellectually playful  essays...by Italy's foremost modern novelist...inspired to go back and reread the body of his fiction in the light of his reflections on literature. -- Christopher Lehmann-Haupt</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1980</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>una pietra sopra: discorsi di letteratura e societ&#224;</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Italo Calvino]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[As usual, Calvino does not disappoint. The writing is intelligent, and always dynamic, and he has this playful sensability which really comes through in his non fiction work. &quot;Why read the classics?&quot; I found especially resonent and gratifying since I'm in grad school at St. John's. He just...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76186522">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This should be required reading for anyone who studies literature.]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Waaaahhhhh... Calvino is/remains so amazing all the time.  This is my first foray into his nonfiction, after reading the majority of his novels in high school and college.  Everything about these essays is so lucid, so intelligent, and so obviously linked with his elegant, mathematical fiction style...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34618724">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[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?...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4921141">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Sat Apr 19 15:43:12 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've obviously been neglecting this book.  It's a collection of essays so it's easy to stop and start.  Why to Read the Classics was a great essay.  I will give this more attention.  It certainly deserves it...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[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.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I re-read his essay &quot;Why Read the Classics?&quot; every three or four months.  It helps remind me why I love reading and re-reading.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This collection of essays provides a major framework for how I view the act of reading/information networks.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far I'm a big fan of:<br/><br/>Cybernetics and Ghosts<br/>The Hypothetical Bookshelf]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This was a bit academic for me, but I read it a long time ago.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved it. He is humorous and pretty easy to follow. ]]></body>
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