Por qué leer los clásicos

The classics are, for Italo Calvino, those books that never finish saying what they have to say, texts that "the more one thinks they know them by hearsay, the more new, unexpected, unpublished they turn out to be when they are read for real." And that is the conviction that encourages Italo Calvino to comment on "his", according to his criteria that each one's classic "is the one that cannot be indifferent to you and that helps you define yourself in relation and perhaps in contrast with the". Thus, mixed in time and in the history of universal literature, the reader discovers the readings of Italo Calvino. The result of all this is a work that has become, in turn, a classic.