by Italo Calvino · Tusquets Editores S.A. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788472238671
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«Por qué leer los clásicos» is a collection of literary essays by Italo Calvino, published by Tusquets Editores in paperback (280 pages, in Spanish).
Calvino champions the classics as inexhaustible readings that keep saying new things over time. He discusses The Odyssey, Orlando Furioso, Cyrano de Bergerac, and Candide, and authors such as Ovid, Kafka, Gadda, and Borges, convinced that each reader's classic is the one that cannot leave them indifferent and helps them define themselves.
It is part of Tusquets' Fábula collection, number 25. The work was originally published in Italian in 1991 under the title «Perché leggere i classici?»; this Spanish edition appeared in 1995.
For readers of essays and literary criticism who want to approach the classics with Calvino's personal perspective.
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).
