Why Read the Classics

Calvino, Italo; McLaughlin, Martin (Trans.)

ISBN 10: 0679415246 / ISBN 13: 9780679415244

Verlag: Pantheon Books, New York, 1999

1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition with full number line. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". x, 277pp. Book presents nicely with unclipped dust jacket wrapped in protective archival sleeve. Very mild rubbing and shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of jacket. Mild rubbing to tail of spine of jacket. Bound in black paper over boards with spine backed in black and lettered in gilt. Gentle bump to tail of spine. Very mild dust-spotting to text block. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: talo Calvino was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. Why Read the Classics? 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. 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, Hemingway, Ponge, Borges, and Queneau.(Publisher). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 15947

Inhaltsangabe:

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

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Why Read the Classics
Verlag: Pantheon Books, New York
Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
Auflage: 1st Edition.