Why Read The Classics?
de Calvino, Italo
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- ISBN 10
- 0224037293
- ISBN 13
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Bromsgrove, West Midlands, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: Jonathan Cape, 1999 0224037293. First edition. Hardback translation of book originally published in Milan in 1991. Fine/Fine. Unclipped. No inscriptions. Almost 9.5" by 6". John Updike wrote on the death of Calvino that: "world literature had been deprived of its most refined and civil voice." These critical essays on world classics are "the most comprehensive sample yet available" of the substantial articles of their kind which he wrote over a period of thirty years from the 1950s to his death in 1985. .
Sinopsis
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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- David Edward Hellawell
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- Inventario del vendedor #
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- Título
- Why Read The Classics?
- Autor
- Calvino, Italo
- Estado del libro
- Usado
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0224037293
- ISBN 13
- 9780224037297
- Editorial
- London: Jonathan Cape, 1999 0224037293
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 1999
- Palabras clave
- Essays; Classics; Novels; Defoe; Hemingway; Homer; Ovid; Balzac; Stendhal; Flaubert; Tolstoy; Dickens; Conrad; QSE
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