Why Read The Classics?
by:
Italo Calvino (author)
In this collection of thirty-six essays, Calvino explores several original definitions of what makes a Classic, and surveys works that range in time from antiquity and early modern Europe, to the masters of the nineteenth-century novel and his early American mentors, through to his contemporaries.
In this collection of thirty-six essays, Calvino explores several original definitions of what makes a Classic, and surveys works that range in time from antiquity and early modern Europe, to the masters of the nineteenth-century novel and his early American mentors, through to his contemporaries.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099284895 (0099284898)
Publish date: June 1st 2000
Publisher: Vintage Classics
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...
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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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