Book of Nature
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Why Read the Classics? (Perché Leggere i Classici, 1991) is an anthology of essays on classic literature by Italo Calvino.
Why read the classics?
- The odysseys within The Odyssey
- Xenophon's Anabasis
- Ovid and universal contiguity
- The sky, man, the elephant
- Nezami's seven princesses
- Tirant lo blanc
- The structure of the Orlando Furioso
- Brief anthology of Octaves from Ariosto
- Gerolamo Cardano
- The book of nature in Galileo
- Cyrano on the moon
- Robinson Crusoe, journal of mercantile virtues
- Candide, or concerning narrative rapidity
- Denis Diderot, Jacques le fataliste
- Giammaria Ortes
- Knowledge as dust-cloud in Stendhal
- Guide for new readers of Stendhal's Charterhouse
- The city as novel in Balzac
- Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend
- Gustave Flaubert, Trois contes
- Leo Tolstoy, Two Hussars
- Mark Twain, The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg
- Henry James, Daisy Miller
- Robert Louis Stevenson, The Pavilion on the Links
- Conrad's captains
- Pasternak and the Revolution
- The world is an artichoke
- Carlo Emilio Gadda, the Pasticciaccio
- Eugenio Montale, 'Forse un mattino andando'
- Montale's cliff
- Hemingway and ourselves
- Francis Ponge
- Jorge Luis Borges
- The philosophy of Raymond Queneau
- Pavese and human sacrifice.
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