The Uses of Literature

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

• Six Memos for the Next Millennium
• If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
• The Castle of Crossed Destinies
• Mr. Palomar
• Invisible Cities
• Difficult Loves
• The Complete Cosmicomics
• Why Read the Classics?
• Nonexistent Knight
• t zero (A Harvest/HBJ BookH)