Why Should You Read the Classics?

Italo Calvino, the "pen squirrel" of Italy, who left his mark on the history of world literature not only as a writer but also with his thoughts on literature, hosts the writers, poets and scientists who had a great importance for him in different periods of his life. Why Should You Read the Classics? The book is available in Turkish for the first time...

First of all, I love Stendhal, because only in him individual moral tension, historical tension, life impulse form a whole: this is the linear tension of the novel. I like Puskin because it means clarity, irony and seriousness. I like Hemingway because it means simplicity, understatement, desire for happiness, sadness. I like Stevenson because he seems to fly. I love Chekhov because he doesn't go further than he has already gone. I like Conrad because he sails in deep waters and doesn't sink. I love Tolstoy because sometimes I get the feeling of "huh, now I understand how he did it", but I don't understand anything. I love Manzoni, because until yesterday I hated him. /.../ I love Gogol because he openly contradicts evil and moderation. I love Dostoevsky because he distorts consistently, angrily and without measure. I love Balzac because he is a prophet. I like Kafka because he is realistic. I like Maupassant because he is superficial. I like Mansfield because he's smart. I like Fitzgerald because he is dissatisfied. I love Radiguet because youth never returns. I like Svevo, because it also requires leaning...



Number of Pages: 292

Year of Printing: 2014


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Yapı Kredi Publications

Number of Pages: 292

First Printing Year: 2008

Language Turkish