| Publication |
London, Vintage Books, 2002.
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| Description |
viii, 335pCream and brown spine
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| Summary/Abstract |
A collection of essays and addresses includes the author's musings on Ptolemy, his reflections on the experimental writings of Borges and Joyce, and confessions about his own ambitions and anxieties.
Translated from Italian.
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| Contents |
On some functions of literature
A reading of the Paradiso
On the style of The communist manifesto
The mists of the Valoi
Wilde : parados and aphorism
A portrait of the artist as bachelor
Between La Mancha and Babel
Borges and my anxiety of influence
On Camporesi : blood, body, life
On symbolism
On style
Les Sémaphores sous la Pluie
The flaws in the form
Intertextual irony and levels of reading
The Poetics and us
The American myth in three anti-American generations
The power of falsehood
How I write
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| Standard Number |
9780099453949 Pb.
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