From the Book - 1st Vintage books ed.
The odysseys within The odyssey
Ovid and universal contiguity
The sky, man, the elephant
Nezami's seven princesses
The structure of the Orlando furioso
Brief anthology of octaves from Ariosto
The book of nature in Galileo
Robinson Crusoe, journal of mercantile virtues
Candide, or concerning narrative rapidity
Denis Diderot, Jacques le fataliste
Knowledge as dust-cloud in Stendhal
Guide for new readers of Stendhal's Charterhouse
The city as novel in Balzac
Charles Dickens, Our mutual friend
Gustave Flaubert, Trois contes
Mark Twain, The man that corrupted Hadleyburg
Henry James, Daisy Miller
Robert Louis Stevenson, The pavilion on the links
Pasternak and the revolution
The world is an artichoke
Carlo Emilio Gadda, the Pasticciaccio
Eugenio Montale, 'Forse un mattino andando'
The philosophy of Raymond Queneau
Pavese and human sacrifice.
