Post by account_disabled on Dec 17, 2023 4:47:54 GMT 1
The second book I read in my life was a classic. A sign, perhaps, that this literary genre which is not a real genre had to enter my life and never leave it again. I have already spoken other times about the classics and their importance and now I will talk about them in another way, perhaps more personal. I read the classics because I consider them complete and unsurpassable novels, which make me feel nostalgic for a world I have never experienced. I got closer to the classics, or rather I started to browse through the classics, looking at a series of my mother's books, The Great Classics of Literature, published by Fabbri Editori, editions from the 60s I believe.
And I remember that they intrigued me. What is a classic The phrase “A classic never sets” is all too well known, even if true. But a classic is a book that leaves something different in each of us, it is a book that arouses personal emotions and sensations in every reader and therefore inevitably leads to a personal definition. I try to list what a classic has always Phone Number Data inspired me, what I expect from reading it. Refinement of style: all the classical authors I read had a precise writing style, so much so that perhaps you just need to read a line and guess who it belongs to. Story: behind a classic there is always a solid, living, complete story, a story that I know has been thought out down to the smallest detail, which illustrates to me the life of the past, the world that no longer exists.
Ancient flavour: I don't know how to define this sensation/expectation. However, this is what I feel when I have a classic in my hands. That book smells ancient and I like everything ancient. Passion: understood as transportation. From a classic I expect it to be engaging, compelling, to keep me tied to the pages, but at the same time a book from which I can detach myself and then pick it up again without forgetting anything. Tranquility: again I don't know how to explain this feeling/expectation. I see a classic as a quiet book, but I don't know what that means. A reading that reassures me, perhaps, indeed it certainly does.
And I remember that they intrigued me. What is a classic The phrase “A classic never sets” is all too well known, even if true. But a classic is a book that leaves something different in each of us, it is a book that arouses personal emotions and sensations in every reader and therefore inevitably leads to a personal definition. I try to list what a classic has always Phone Number Data inspired me, what I expect from reading it. Refinement of style: all the classical authors I read had a precise writing style, so much so that perhaps you just need to read a line and guess who it belongs to. Story: behind a classic there is always a solid, living, complete story, a story that I know has been thought out down to the smallest detail, which illustrates to me the life of the past, the world that no longer exists.
Ancient flavour: I don't know how to define this sensation/expectation. However, this is what I feel when I have a classic in my hands. That book smells ancient and I like everything ancient. Passion: understood as transportation. From a classic I expect it to be engaging, compelling, to keep me tied to the pages, but at the same time a book from which I can detach myself and then pick it up again without forgetting anything. Tranquility: again I don't know how to explain this feeling/expectation. I see a classic as a quiet book, but I don't know what that means. A reading that reassures me, perhaps, indeed it certainly does.