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

I did not read every word of this book about books as I have not read more than a few of the classics discussed...but I still loved it. The first chapter is Calvino's fourteen point definition of a "classic" (with elaborations after each point). I copied it out word for word (including that wonderfu 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