The written world and the unwritten world: essays

Reading, writing, translating : Good intentions

Characters and names

The failure of the Italian novel

The fates of the novel

Questions on realism

Answers to nine questions on the novel

Industrial themes

Correspondence with Angelo Guglielmi regarding 'The Challenge to the Labyrinth'

On translation

Letter from a 'minor' writer

Sitting-down literature

Art thefts (conversation with Tullio Pericoli)

Translating a text is the true way of reading it

Literature and power (on an essay by Alberto Asor Rosa)

The last fires

Gian Carlo Ferretti, bestseller Italian-style

The written world and the unwritten world

A book, books

Why do you write?

On publishing : Notes for a book series on moral inquiry

Plan for a journal

A new series, Einaudi's Centopagine series

Einaudi Biblioteca Giovani (Einaudi Young People's Library)

The Mondadori Biblioteca Romantica

On the fantastic : The knights of the Grail

Fantastic tales of the nineteenth century

Seven flasks of tears

The fantastic in Italian literature

Notturno Italiano

Science, history, anthropology : The genealogical forest

Cosmological models

Montezuma and Cortés

Cannibals and Kings by Marvin Harris

Carlo Ginzburg, 'Clues: Roots of an Evidential Paradigm'

Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, La Nouvelle Alliance

Arnold van Gennep, The Rights of Passage

Long Journey to the Center of the Brain by Renato and Rosellina Balbi

Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson

Giovanni Godoli, The Sun: Story of a Star

Essays on Love by Ortega y Gasset

The View from Afar by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Pietro Redondi, Galileo Heretic

Ancient and Modern Ideas of Fate by Giorgio de Santillana.