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This collection of essays provides critical appraisals and personal appreciations of the writers, poets, and scientists who meant most to Calvino at different stages of his life
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Italo Calvino's works include <b>Numbers in the Dark</b>, <b>The Road to San Giovanni</b>, <b>Six Memos for the Next Millennium</b> (all available from Vintage Books), <b>The Baron in the Trees</b>, <b>If on a Winter's Night a Traveler</b> (available from Everyman's Library), <b>Invisible Cities</b>, <b>Marcovaldo</b>, and <b>Mr. Palomar</b>. Calvino died in 1985.
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o was not only a prolific master of fiction, he was also an uncanny reader of literature, a keen critic of astonishing range. <b>Why Read the Classics?</b> is the most comprehensive collection of Calvino's literary criticism available in English, accounting for the enduring importance to our lives of crucial writers of the Western canon. Here--spanning more than two millennia, from antiquity to postmodernism--are thirty-six immediately relevant, elegantly written, accessible ruminations on the writers, poets, and scientists who meant most to Calvino at different stages of his life.<br><br>Following the title essay, which explores fourteen definitions of "the classic," Calvino offers writings that are at once critical appraisals and personal appreciations of, among others: Homer, Xenophon, Ovid, Pliny, Nezami, Ariosto, Cardano, Galileo, Defoe, Voltaire, Diderot, Ortes, Stendhal, Balzac, Dickens, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Twain, Henry James, Stevenson, Conrad, Pasternak, Gadda, Montale, H
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Why Read the Classics?
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Hardcover with dustjacket. Zustand: Sehr gut. 288 p. In very good condition. - Contents -- Translator's Introduction vii Preface 1 -- Why Read the Classics? 3 The Odysseys Within The Odyssey 11 Xenopbion s Anabasis 19 Ovid and Universal Contiguity 25 The Shy, Man, the Elephant 37 Nezami's Seven Princesses 47 Tirant lo Blanc 53 -- The Structure of the Orlando Furioso 59 Brief Anthology of Octaves from Ariosto 69 Gerolamo Cardano 77 The Booh of Nature in Galileo 83 Cyrano on the Moon 91 -- Robinson Crusoe, Journal of Mercantile Virtues 97 Candide, or Concerning Narrative Rapidity 103 -- Denis Diderot, Jacques /e Fataliste 107 Giammaria Ortes 113 Knowledge as Dust-cl oud in Stendhal 119 Guide for New Readers of Stendhal's Charterhouse 131 The City as Novel in Balzac 139 Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend 145 Gustave Flauhert, Trois Contes 151 Leo Tolstoy, Two Hussars 155 Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 159 Henry Janies, Daisy Miller 165 Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pavilion on the Links 169 Conrad's Captains 173 Pasternak and the Revolution 179 The World is an Artichoke 197 Carlo Emilio Gadda, the Pasticciaccio 201 Eugenio Montale, 'Forse un mattino andando' 209 Montale's Cliff 219 Hemingway and Ourselves 223 Francis Ponge 231 Jorge Luis Borges 237 The Phil osophy of Raymond Queneau 245 Pavese and Human Sacrifice 261 -- Publisher's Note 265 -- -- ISBN 9780679415244 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 539. Artikel-Nr. 1242247
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