Why Read the Classics?
«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»
Daily Telegraph
Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Classics
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780141189703
- Utgivelsesår
- 2009
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«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»
Daily Telegraph
«This volume itself is a classic book at bedtime, a seductive invitation to forgotten opportunities or rereading»
The Times
«A master’s guidance on everything from the ancient Greeks to Ernest Hemingway, proving that “a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.” This timeless description applies to Calvino’s own books too»
John Self