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'Enthusiasm and intelligence: these are the essential qualities
of the critic. Calvino, himself a novelist of rare quality,
possessed both generously. This is a book to read for itself, and
also because it will send you back to other books to read, either
again in a new way, or for the first time... Superb' Daily
Telegraph 'This volume itself is a classic book at bedtime, a
seductive invitation to forgotten opportunities or rereading' The
Times
内容简介
"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.
作者简介
Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has
delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple,
fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San
Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His
major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972),
and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in
1985. Martin L. McLaughlin is Professor of Italian and Fiat-Serena
Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford where he
is a Fellow of Magdalen College. In addition to his published
academic works he is the English translator of Umberto Eco and
Italo Calvino among many others.