Why Read the Classics?
by:
Italo Calvino (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679415244 (0679415246)
Publish date: August 24th 1999
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Literary Fiction,
Italian Literature
bookshelves: dip-in-now-and-again, summer-2014, essays, e-book, lit-crit, ipad, tbr-busting-2014, italy, nonfiction, skim-through, reference Read from July 08 to August 05, 2014 Description: From the internationally-acclaimed author of some of this century's most breathtakingly original novels co...
برای فهمیدن نقدهایش لازم است که با بیشتر کتاب‌های مورد بحث آشنا باشید (که من نبودم). با این حال باعث شد که واقعا دلم بخواهد چند تا از این کتاب‌ها را بخوانم:داستان مضحک احوالات و امپراتوری‌های ماه نوشته ساوینین دو سیرانو، «دوست مشترک ما» نوشته چارلز دیکنز، «آن ماجرای قاراشمیش خیابان مرولانا» نوشته ک....
Little bit uneven! Loved his essay on Homer, but the Borges one was surprisingly ineffective for me.
Best read per essay as a reference for whenever you read one of the mentioned texts. What I take from it is Calvino as a well-read guy going "Dude you totally gotta read this", but I doubt "Dude: You Gotta Read This- Italo Calvino's one-page list of books you should read" would sell as well :-)
Un libro da leggere più e più volte, in diversi momenti della propria vita e della propria formazione, per poter apprezzare al meglio gli autori e le opere che Calvino analizza in questo libro, mettendoci tutto l'amore che ha per la letteratura. Bellissimo.
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