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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, <b>Dr. Zhivago</b>, and why Cyrano de Bergerac is the forerunner of modern-day science-fiction writers. Learn how many odysseys <b>The Odyssey</b> 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. <b>Why Read the Classics?</b> firmly establishes Calvino among the rare likes of Nabokov, Borges, and Lawrence--writers whose criticism is as vibrant and unique as their groundbreaking fiction.
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Vintage Classics: Why Read the Classics?, Italo Calvino
- Language
- Released
- 2000
- Binding
- (Paperback),
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- Title
- Vintage Classics: Why Read the Classics?
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Italo Calvino
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 288
- ISBN10
- 0099284898
- ISBN13
- 9780099284895
- Series
- Description
- 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, <b>Dr. Zhivago</b>, and why Cyrano de Bergerac is the forerunner of modern-day science-fiction writers. Learn how many odysseys <b>The Odyssey</b> 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. <b>Why Read the Classics?</b> firmly establishes Calvino among the rare likes of Nabokov, Borges, and Lawrence--writers whose criticism is as vibrant and unique as their groundbreaking fiction.