Why Read the Classics? - Italo Calvino Engelse literatuur Oğuz Atays personages zijn hartverscheurend

Oğuz Atays personages zijn hartverscheurend in hun zelftwijfel

waaraan hij dan ook zijn grote roem dankt

the thirty-three tales in this volume are among the most darkly humorous and brilliant short stories in nineteenth-century literature

Rishoi en krabbelen weer overeind

Why Read the Classics? - Italo Calvino Engelse literatuur Oğuz Atays personages zijn hartverscheurendWhy 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.