by Italo Calvino
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...
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 :-)
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