Why Read the Classics? - Brossura

Calvino, Italo

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ISBN 10: 0676973191 ISBN 13: 9780676973198

Casa editrice: Vintage Canada, 2001

Riassunto

In this powerful and playful collection, the brilliant Italo Calvino offers fans and newcomers alike thirty-six trenchant essays on the enduring importance of the crucial authors of Western civilization, from Homer to Borges. Calvino brings his sparkling imagination and erudition to bear on our most treasured works of the past two and a half millennia.

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Recensione

"Calvino's essays...make clear how exhilarating the classics can be." —Washington Post Book World

"Why Read the Classics? is full of temptations. In the person of its whimsical author, it offers us the lure of his eclectic bookshelves through which Calvino guides us, pulling out books and reading us choice passages, watching our faces for reactions of astonishment and for the pleasure of learning." — Alberto Manguel

"It's Calvino and the classics, so how can you lose? This book serves as a welcome reminder that the great works are great because they can mean so much to readers, and Calvino is a most knowledgeable guide to all the best destinations." — San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"Blissfully free of academic jargon and journalistic glibness, and its erudition is matched by a real, if becomingly unflaunted, passion for literature. It makes you immediately want to read the authors in question." —The Evening Standard

L'autore

Italo Calvino's works include Numbers in the Dark, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Baron in the Trees, Cosmicomics, If on a winter's night a traveler, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, Mr. Palomar, and Under the Jaguar Sun. Born in Cuba and raised in Italy, Calvino died in 1985.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Vintage Canada
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0676973191
• ISBN 13: 9780676973198
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 288