Why Read the Classics? (Vintage) - Softcover

Calvino, Italo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0679743499 ISBN 13: 9780679743491

Verlag: Vintage Books, 2001

Inhaltsangabe

In a collection of thirty-six wise, elegantly written essays, the late author of The Road to San Giovanni explores the the enduring significance of key authors and fine literature from the Western canon, discussing the works of Homer, Defoe, Galileo, Stendhal, Dickens, Hemingway, and many others. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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Italo Calvino died in 1985.

Translated from the Italian by Martin McLaughlin.

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ernationally-acclaimed author of some of this century's most breathtakingly original novels comes this posthumous collection of thirty-six literary essays that will make any fortunate reader view the old classics in a dazzling new light.

Learn why Lara, not Zhivago, is the center of Pasternak's masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago, and why Cyrano de Bergerac is the forerunner of modern-day science-fiction writers. Learn how many odysseys The Odyssey contains, and why Hemingway's Nick Adams stories are a pinnacle of twentieth-century literature. From Ovid to Pavese, Xenophon to Dickens, Galileo to Gadda, Calvino covers the classics he has loved most with essays that are fresh, accessible, and wise. Why Read the Classics? firmly establishes Calvino among the rare likes of Nabokov, Borges, and Lawrence--writers whose criticism is as vibrant and unique as their groundbreaking fiction.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Vintage Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679743499
• ISBN 13: 9780679743491
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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