Italo Calvino

Why Read the Classics?

Mitarbeit:McLaughlin, Martin

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with an essay on the attributes that define a classic, this collection provides the author's criticism.

Produktdetails

• Penguin Modern Classics
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 220g
• ISBN-13: 9780141189703
• ISBN-10: 0141189703
• Artikelnr.: 25902100

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

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