Why Read the Classics? - Rilegato

Calvino, Italo

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0679415246 ISBN 13: 9780679415244

Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 1999

Riassunto

This collection of essays provides critical appraisals and personal appreciations of the writers, poets, and scientists who meant most to Calvino at different stages of his life

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Recensione:

From the British reviews of Why Read the Classics?

"Calvino has the precious gift of introducing a work of literature so as to make it live for the reader as it does for him. . . . He explains important works of the Western canon in a style of innocent wonder."
        
-- The Times
"Enthusiasm and intelligence: these are the essential qualities of the critic. Calvino, himself a novelist of rare quality, possessed both generously. This is a book to read for itself, either again and in a new way, or for the first time."

-- The Daily Telegraph
"Most of the book gives an implicit answer to the book's title, but the opening essay attempts a direct one, and manages in just over six pages to give one of the most inspiring and least cliché-ridden justifications of great literature I've ever come upon."
        
-- The Sunday Telegraph
"Like any library worthy of its name, 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 a few new melodies before we reach the final page."

-- The Observer
"This is a primer of the highest quality on the work of thirty-one classic writers. . . . It's also 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, The Road to San Giovanni, Six Memos for the Next Millennium (all available from Vintage Books), The Baron in the Trees, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (available from Everyman's Library), Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar. Calvino died in 1985.

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• Editore: Pantheon Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0679415246
• ISBN 13: 9780679415244
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 277