Italo Calvino collects essays on writers from Homer to the twentieth century, including Xenophon, Ovid, Pliny, Defoe, Stendhal, Dickens, Conrad, Hemingway, Borges, and Queneau. He opens with fourteen definitions of a classic, such as a book that has never finished saying what it has to say. Each essay is a personal reading that explains why a particular work remains worth returning to.
Readers who love books about books will enjoy it as a guide to what to read next. It offers friendly, intelligent arguments for reading old books in a hurried age.
Deep and contemplative; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Deep Diver. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1995
- Publisher
- Mondadori
- ISBN
- 9788804401407
- Language
- IT
