Man as an end -- The man and the character -- Presence and prose -- Recalling Time of indifference -- Extremism and literature -- Psychoanalysis -- Machiavelli -- Communism in power and the problem of art -- Boccaccio -- Roman walks -- Notes on the novel -- The short story and the novel -- Answers to nine questions on the novel -- Alessandro Manzoni, or the hypothesis of a Catholic realism -- Eroticism in literature -- Nothing amen -- Dialogue on the painting of Renato Guttuso -- The "vulgarity" of Giuseppe Verdi
