Why Read the Classics?

Calvino, Italo

ISBN 10: 0679743499 / ISBN 13: 9780679743491

Edité par Vintage, 2001

N° de réf. du vendeur 0679743499-3-37425671

Synopsis :

144 pages

Présentation de l'éditeur: From the internationally-acclaimed author of some of this century's most breathtakingly original novels comes this posthumous collection of thirty-six literary essays that will make any fortunate reader view the old classics in a dazzling new light.

Learn why Lara, not Zhivago, is the center of Pasternak's masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago, and why Cyrano de Bergerac is the forerunner of modern-day science-fiction writers. Learn how many odysseys The Odyssey contains, and why Hemingway's Nick Adams stories are a pinnacle of twentieth-century literature. From Ovid to Pavese, Xenophon to Dickens, Galileo to Gadda, Calvino covers the classics he has loved most with essays that are fresh, accessible, and wise. Why Read the Classics? firmly establishes Calvino among the rare likes of Nabokov, Borges, and Lawrence--writers whose criticism is as vibrant and unique as their groundbreaking fiction.  

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Why Read the Classics?
Éditeur : Vintage
Date d'édition : 2001
Reliure : paperback
Etat : Good