Perché leggere i classici

You start your reading of Calvino’s explorations. You do this mainly to get to know a wonderful list of classics to tackle, of the thoughts of a loved author, and to know of how to approach these sometimes daunting works. After the masterful first essay which defines ‘classics’, you realize that Cal Leggi tutto

Italo Calvino, in his Why Read the Classics?, expresses it best: 8) A classic does not necessarily teach us anything we did not know before. In a classic we sometimes discover something we have always known (or thought we knew), but without knowing that this author said it first, or at least is assoc Leggi tutto

Ο Καλβίνο δεν είναι μόνο σημαντικός συγγραφέας, αλλά και ικανότατος δοκιμιογράφος / λογοτεχνικός κριτικός, όπως φαίνεται στο εν λόγω βιβλίο. Όχι, λοιπόν, καμία απορία δεν είχα "Γιατί να διαβάζουμε τους κλασικούς", καθώς στην τρέχουσα φάση της ζωής μου, το ερώτημά μου είναι "Γιατί να διαβάζουμε οτιδή Leggi tutto

با مطالعۀ این کتاب، می‌توان به حقیقت سرچشمه‌های ذهنی ایتالو کالوینو پی برد. منظور من ارتباط این کتاب با کتاب دیگر او «کمدیهای کیهانی» است. کالوینو از سنت قصه‌گویی و روایت شرقی بهره می‌گیرد. دلیل این گرایش، علاقۀ وی به سنت قصه‌گویی هزار و یک شب و توجه و استقبال از هفت‌پیکر نظامی‌ست. در این کتاب مقاله Leggi tutto

127th book of 2020. I’ve been wanting to read this for a long time: It is a book that has managed to elude me, by being hard to get hold of or else expensive to get hold of. I am in debt to my old university housemate who bought and gifted me this. Despite wracking my brain for a Calvino related anec Leggi tutto