Why Read the Classics? - Rilegato

Calvino, Italo

 
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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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Italo Calvino's works include <b>Numbers in the Dark</b>, <b>The Road to San Giovanni</b>, <b>Six Memos for the Next Millennium</b> (all available from Vintage Books), <b>The Baron in the Trees</b>, <b>If on a Winter's Night a Traveler</b> (available from Everyman's Library), <b>Invisible Cities</b>, <b>Marcovaldo</b>, and <b>Mr. Palomar</b>. Calvino died in 1985.

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o was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. <b>Why Read the Classics?</b> is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers of the Western canon. Here--spanning more than two millennia, from antiquity to postmodernism--are thirty-six immediately relevant, elegantly written, accessible ruminations on the writers, poets, and scientists who meant most to Calvino at different stages of his life.<br><br>Following the title essay, which explores fourteen definitions of "the classic," Calvino offers writings that are at once critical appraisals and personal appreciations of, among others: Homer, Xenophon, Ovid, Pliny, Nezami, Ariosto, Cardano, Galileo, Defoe, Voltaire, Diderot, Ortes, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Twain, Henry James, Stevenson, Conrad, Pasternak, Gadda, Montale, H

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