Tirant lo Blanch
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Why Read the Classics? (Perché Leggere i Classici, 1991) is an anthology of essays on classic literature by Italo Calvino.
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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.