[Perché leggere i classici]
Year:
1991
Type:
Public:
Publisher:
Penguin Classics
Year of publication:
2009
Pages:
288
Moral assessment:
Type: Thought
Nothing inappropriate.
Requires prior general knowledge of the subject.
Readers with knowledgeable about the subject matter.
Contains doctrinal errors of some importance.
Whilst not being explicitly against the faith, the general approach or its main points are ambiguous or opposed to the Church’s teachings.
Incompatible with Catholic doctrine.
Literary quality:
Recommendable:
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The rating of the different categories comes from the opinion of Delibris' collaborators
For Italo Calvino (1923-1985), classics are those books that never finish saying what they have to say. They are books that we think we know, but that always provide something new, unexpected or original when we reread them. And that is the conviction that encourages Italo Calvino to comment on his classic books, according to his criterion that each one's classic is one that cannot be indifferent to you and that serves to define yourself in relation or in contrast to it. The reader discovers Italo Calvino's best readings. The result: a book that has become a classic.