Why Read the Classics?

by Italo Calvino

Book Overview

Why Read the Classics? is an elegant defence of the value of great literature by one of the finest authors of the last century. Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic (number... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679743499
• ISBN13: 9780679743491
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

A personal antology

The answer to the question sophisticatedly raised by this little anthology, is given in the essay which opens the collection.The basic reason lies in forming a personal scale of values that help you individualize the real artistic elements in new works. The second one is that reading increases the quality of living in usual and unusual situations, as well. But the quality of school anthologies and their presentations is still an open problem.

Calvino get you inloved with literature!!

What makes a book a clasic? Borges once said in a conference, that the fact that a whole generation lives with the idea of a book makes it a classic, Calvino involve you in that idea..