{"product_id":"why-read-the-classics","title":"Why Read the Classics?","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Italo Calvino\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2000\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 278\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 0099284898\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of thirty-six essays on his classics, Italo Calvino explores several original definitions of what makes a classic, and surveys works that range in time from antiquity and early modern Europe, to the masters of the nineteenth-century novel and his early American mentors, through to his contemporaries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy Read the Classics? Constitutes Calvino's literary canon and sheds fascinating light on the key texts that influenced this major twentieth-century novelist, confirming his position too as one of the most interesting essayists and critics of his time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume is itself a classic book at bedtime, a seductive invitation to forgotten opportunities of rereading.\u003cbr\u003e-The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFascinating, 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, and also because it will send you back to other books to read, either again in a new way, or for the first time, Superb.\u003cbr\u003e-Daily Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA primer of the highest quality of 31 classic writers, blissfully free of academic jargon and journalistic glibness, and its erudition is matched by a real, if becomingly unflaunted passion for literature.\u003cbr\u003e-Evening Standard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor all his serious considerations of the literature we call classic, of all his deep insights, Calvino is a writer whom we can read just for the fun brilliant.\u003cbr\u003e-Observer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI would recommend this book to anyone who is puzzled over the distinction between a work of literature and a plausible fake, Calvino shows by example that the classics matter.\u003cbr\u003e-The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA great collection, posthumously put together and admirably translated For admirers of Calvino, the collection is valuable for the light it throws on his influences, one of the most inspiring, and least cliché-ridden justifications of great literature I've ever come upon.\u003cbr\u003e-Sunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ideal mixture of imaginative insight, intelligent sympathy and conveyed joy, The breadth of Calvino's enthusiasms is staggering, freshly and fluently translated, this work is a treasury of arresting, provocative comparisons and judgments.\u003cbr\u003e-Herald\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTranslator's Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhy Read the Classics?\u003cbr\u003eThe Odysseys within The Odyssey\u003cbr\u003eXenophon's Anabasis\u003cbr\u003eOvid and Universal Contiguity\u003cbr\u003eThe Sky, Man the Elephant\u003cbr\u003eNezami's Seven Princesses\u003cbr\u003eTirant lo Blanc\u003cbr\u003eThe Structure of the Orlando Furioso\u003cbr\u003eBrief Anthology of Octraves from Ariosto\u003cbr\u003eGerolamo Cardano\u003cbr\u003eThe Book of Nature in Galileo\u003cbr\u003eCyrano on the Moon\u003cbr\u003eRobinson Crusoe, Journal of Mercantile Virtues\u003cbr\u003eCandide, or Concerning Narrative Rapidity\u003cbr\u003eDenis Diderot, Jacques le Fataliste\u003cbr\u003eGiammaria Ortes\u003cbr\u003eKnowledge as Dust-cloud in Stendhal\u003cbr\u003eGuide for New Readers of Stendhal's Charterhouse\u003cbr\u003eThe City as Novel in Balzac\u003cbr\u003eCharles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend\u003cbr\u003eGustave Flaubert, Trois Contes\u003cbr\u003eLeo Tolstoy, Two Hussars\u003cbr\u003eMark Twain, The Man that Corrupted Hadleyburg\u003cbr\u003eHenry James, Daisy Miller\u003cbr\u003eRobert Louis Stevenson, The Pavilion on the Links\u003cbr\u003eConrad's Captains\u003cbr\u003ePasternak and the Revolution\u003cbr\u003eThe World is an Artichoke\u003cbr\u003eCarlo Emilio Gadda, The Pasticciaccio\u003cbr\u003eEugenio Montale, Forse un mattino andando\u003cbr\u003eMontale's Cliff\u003cbr\u003eHemingway and Ourselves\u003cbr\u003eFrancis Ponge\u003cbr\u003eJorge Luis Borges\u003cbr\u003eThe Philosophy of Raymond Queneau \u003cbr\u003ePavese and Human Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublisher's Note\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Italo Calvino \/ Vintage \/ Paperback","offer_id":68153646874992,"sku":"13920","price":14.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1041\/5203\/9792\/files\/13920.jpg?v=1793912006","url":"https:\/\/marketcalvexa.shop\/products\/why-read-the-classics","provider":"Alderstone House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}