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Daniele Imperi Reading 3 April 2012 9 Comments 1902 readings The classicsWe often talk about the importance of reading the classics , both for personal culture and because those who love writing and dream of becoming a writer should read works of a certain depth. Works that have made history and are history. However, I was thinking about another aspect of the classics, which perhaps has not yet been revealed. I was thinking about narrative genres, the ones that I actually don't like very much. What genre does a classic belong to? It belongs to the classics , of course.
This is the classification that has been given to them today, regardless of the stories that are told there. But when the classics were born, they were not yet classics. They were books like the others, which perhaps had received more or less harsh criticism. Books that risked not even being printed. And finally they became classics. Books that Special Data everyone reads, that everyone should read, that are found in every bookstore and library, that are recommended, that are studied at school, that are given as gifts, because it is always a pleasure to receive a classic. They are timeless books and this is true. Because they represent a time that no longer exists and reading them means experiencing that impossible feeling of nostalgia for something that has not been experienced or known.
I would have liked to walk down Baker Street and meet that solitary, lanky figure who walked briskly and resolutely at all hours of the day and night. Or, in a fit of anger, having participated in the bread revolt in Milan. When you open a classic you don't think about the narrative genre, you only think about the story. And when you've finished reading it, you know you've read a story and you don't even ask yourself the question of literary genre. And when you put it back on the shelf, you put the book back among the others. To the classics, those like him. And then you understand that the classics are stories. Stories so dense and unique that they defy any classification. For them, for the books that do not fade away, for those that are still rarely read, a special section has been created in bookstores, on websites, in homes.
This is the classification that has been given to them today, regardless of the stories that are told there. But when the classics were born, they were not yet classics. They were books like the others, which perhaps had received more or less harsh criticism. Books that risked not even being printed. And finally they became classics. Books that Special Data everyone reads, that everyone should read, that are found in every bookstore and library, that are recommended, that are studied at school, that are given as gifts, because it is always a pleasure to receive a classic. They are timeless books and this is true. Because they represent a time that no longer exists and reading them means experiencing that impossible feeling of nostalgia for something that has not been experienced or known.
I would have liked to walk down Baker Street and meet that solitary, lanky figure who walked briskly and resolutely at all hours of the day and night. Or, in a fit of anger, having participated in the bread revolt in Milan. When you open a classic you don't think about the narrative genre, you only think about the story. And when you've finished reading it, you know you've read a story and you don't even ask yourself the question of literary genre. And when you put it back on the shelf, you put the book back among the others. To the classics, those like him. And then you understand that the classics are stories. Stories so dense and unique that they defy any classification. For them, for the books that do not fade away, for those that are still rarely read, a special section has been created in bookstores, on websites, in homes.