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Why Read the Classics? Paperback - 2014
by Italo Calvino
A posthumously published collection of thirty-six essays offering Italo Calvino's invigorating and illuminating analysis of his most treasured literary classics.
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For Italo Calvino, classics are works of enduring cultural value, yes, but also something much more personal: talismans, touchstones, books through which we understand our world and ourselves. In Why Read the Classics?, Calvino shares thirty-six of his classics in essays of warmth, humor, and striking insight. He ranges from Homer to Borges, from the Persian folklorist Nezami to Dickens, and offers surprising insights along the way. Whether tracing the links between Ovid’s Metamorphoses and Alain Robbe-Grillet’s objectivity, discovering the origins of science fiction in the writings of Cyrano de Bergerac, or convincing us that the Italian novelist Carlo Emilio Gadda’s works are like artichokes, Calvino offers a new perspective on beloved favorites and introduces us to hidden gems.
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- Title Why Read the Classics?
- Author Italo Calvino
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books
- Date 2014-12-16
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780544146372 / 0544146379
- Weight 0.48 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 1.78 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Canon (Literature), Literature - History and criticism
- Dewey Decimal Code 809
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