Publisher: Penguin Books, Limited
Publish date: 2009
Pages: 277
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Subjects: Fiction, Classics, Literary Collections, Essays, Literary Criticism, Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading
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 one - classics are those books that people always say they are 'rereading', not 'reading'), this is an absorbing collection of Italo Calvino's witty and passionate criticism.