by Italo Calvino · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472234994
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«Por qué leer los clásicos» is Italo Calvino's essay book, published by Tusquets Editores S.A. in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
Posthumous collection of essays in which Italo Calvino reflects on what makes a work classic and why it continues to speak to each generation. The author surveys a wide range of authors and titles, from Homer and Ovid to Borges and Hemingway, with analyses combining erudition and accessibility. Includes pieces such as «Las Odiseas en la Odisea» and «Jorge Luis Borges», as well as a famous foray into Candide or Voltaire.
The volume belongs to Tusquets' Marginales collection. The Italian original, «Perché leggere i classici?», appeared posthumously in 1991, and the Spanish translation is by Aurora Bernárdez.
Aimed at literature readers and those who want to approach the classics with fresh eyes, as well as those already familiar with Calvino's narrative work.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
