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Publisher Summary 1
In a collection of thirty-six wise, elegantly written essays, the late author of The Road to San Giovanni explores the the enduring significance of key authors and fine literature from the Western canon, discussing the works of Homer, Defoe, Galileo, Stendhal, Dickens, Hemingway, and many others. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Publisher Summary 2
From the internationally-acclaimed author of some of this century's most breathtakingly original novels comes this posthumous collection of thirty-six literary essays that will make any fortunate reader view the old classics in a dazzling new light.
Learn why Lara, not Zhivago, is the center of Pasternak's masterpiece, Dr. Zhivago, and why Cyrano de Bergerac is the forerunner of modern-day science-fiction writers. Learn how many odysseys The Odysseycontains, and why Hemingway's Nick Adams stories are a pinnacle of twentieth-century literature. From Ovid to Pavese, Xenophon to Dickens, Galileo to Gadda, Calvino covers the classics he has loved most with essays that are fresh, accessible, and wise. Why Read the Classics?firmly establishes Calvino among the rare likes of Nabokov, Borges, and Lawrence--writers whose criticism is as vibrant and unique as their groundbreaking fiction.
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Table Of Contents:
Translator's Introduction vii
Preface 1(2)
Why Read the Classics? 3(8)
The Odysseys Within The Odyssey 11(8)
Xenophon's Anabasis 19(6)
Ovid and Universal Contiguity 25(12)
The Sky, Man, the Elephant 37(10)
Nezami's Seven Princesses 47(6)
Tirant lo Blanc 53(6)
The Structure of the Orlando Furioso 59(10)
Brief Anthology of Octaves from Ariosto 69(8)
Gerolamo Cardano 77(6)
The Book of Nature in Galileo 83(8)
Cyrano on the Moon 91(6)
Journal of Mercantile Virtues 97(6)
Robinson Crusoe
Candide, or Concerning Narrative Rapidity 103(4)
Denis Diderot, Jacques le Fataliste 107(6)
Giammaria Ortes 113(6)
Knowledge as Dust-Cloud in Stendhal 119(12)
Guide for New Readers of Stendhal's Charterhouse 131(8)
The City as Novel in Balzac 139(6)
Our Mutual Friend 145(6)
Charles Dickens
Trois Contes 151(4)
Gustave Flaubert
Two Hussars 155(4)
Leo Tolstoy
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 159(6)
Mark Twain
Daisy Miller 165(4)
Henry James
The Pavilion on the Links 169(4)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Conrad's Captains 173(6)
Pasternak and the Revolution 179(18)
The World is an Artichoke 197(4)
the Pasticciaccio 201(8)
Carlo Emilio Gadda
`Forse un mattino andando' 209(10)
Eugenio Montale
Montale's Cliff 219(4)
Hemingway and Ourselves 223(8)
Francis Ponge 231(6)
Jorge Luis Borges 237(8)
The Philosophy of Raymond Queneau 245(16)
Pavese and Human Sacrifice 261(4)
Publisher's Note 265(4)
Index 269
Translator's Introduction vii
Preface 1(2)
Why Read the Classics? 3(8)
The Odysseys Within The Odyssey 11(8)
Xenophon's Anabasis 19(6)
Ovid and Universal Contiguity 25(12)
The Sky, Man, the Elephant 37(10)
Nezami's Seven Princesses 47(6)
Tirant lo Blanc 53(6)
The Structure of the Orlando Furioso 59(10)
Brief Anthology of Octaves from Ariosto 69(8)
Gerolamo Cardano 77(6)
The Book of Nature in Galileo 83(8)
Cyrano on the Moon 91(6)
Journal of Mercantile Virtues 97(6)
Robinson Crusoe
Candide, or Concerning Narrative Rapidity 103(4)
Denis Diderot, Jacques le Fataliste 107(6)
Giammaria Ortes 113(6)
Knowledge as Dust-Cloud in Stendhal 119(12)
Guide for New Readers of Stendhal's Charterhouse 131(8)
The City as Novel in Balzac 139(6)
Our Mutual Friend 145(6)
Charles Dickens
Trois Contes 151(4)
Gustave Flaubert
Two Hussars 155(4)
Leo Tolstoy
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg 159(6)
Mark Twain
Daisy Miller 165(4)
Henry James
The Pavilion on the Links 169(4)
Robert Louis Stevenson
Conrad's Captains 173(6)
Pasternak and the Revolution 179(18)
The World is an Artichoke 197(4)
the Pasticciaccio 201(8)
Carlo Emilio Gadda
`Forse un mattino andando' 209(10)
Eugenio Montale
Montale's Cliff 219(4)
Hemingway and Ourselves 223(8)
Francis Ponge 231(6)
Jorge Luis Borges 237(8)
The Philosophy of Raymond Queneau 245(16)
Pavese and Human Sacrifice 261(4)
Publisher's Note 265(4)
Index 269
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