Post by account_disabled on Jan 1, 2024 7:07:08 GMT
I have often written here on the blog that I didn't like reading as a child, but perhaps that's not exactly true, because almost every day I consulted the UTET encyclopedia I had at home and I Fifteen and other books to find out more about the various topics that fascinated me - and they still fascinate today – like dinosaurs, prehistory, UFOs, mysteries, the Wild West and Native Americans, disappeared civilizations. They were lighthearted reads, made to satisfy the curiosity of a child and a boy with his head always lost in the clouds, who loved to fantasize rather than study. Nothing has changed since that time, my head is still in the clouds and I love to fantasize, but at least I read more often. Having read little, I have many gaps, because I have missed out on many educational readings , books that should be read as children, but which can still be enjoyed even by adults, as Calvino claimed.
Today my readings follow a sort of schedule. There was a time when I ended up reading 5 books at the same time , which I then reduced to 3, because it had become impossible to manage them all, at least one remained unread for a long time. Now I only read 2 books together , one of which is a classic. And among the classics I alternate the ancient ones with the modern ones. It's a program that I've been carrying out for over two years now and I'm very happy with it. It is a sort of imposition, at least at first Special Data glance it would seem so, but I don't see it as an imposition, given that in any case I read what attracts me at that moment between classics and moderns. The importance of the Latin and Greek classics Reading the classics is not always easy. The language has changed and some authors can be a little hard to understand. I still remember reading Manzoni's Adelchi at the 4th high school: I hated it, because I didn't understand anything about it. Reading the Latin and Greek classics can be even more difficult, but it depends on the work.
Reading Caesar's De Bello Gallico and De Bello Civili , as well as Herodotus' Histories , is simple, despite the time that has passed. Reading the Iliad and the Odyssey (the latter still to be finished) was truly painful for me. I don't know what to expect with other ancient works that I have purchased, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses , Plato's Republic , Seneca's Letters to Lucilius and many others. But I know I will read them, because they are ultimately the foundations on which modern literature rests . I have always thought this: we cannot start writing if we don't know what was written at the dawn of literature and civilization. Maybe I'm wrong, but I still think so. The beauty of 19th century classics I couldn't think of a better word: for me the 19th century classics are just beautiful and they are the ones that perhaps I prefer to the others. It is enough to look at any list to realize the vast variety of stories that can be read. Let's also consider that the 19th century is one of my favorite historical periods (preferred to the current one in which I live, I mean) and reading one of those classics becomes a greater pleasure for me, even if the story isn't about that period (see The Betrothed ).
Today my readings follow a sort of schedule. There was a time when I ended up reading 5 books at the same time , which I then reduced to 3, because it had become impossible to manage them all, at least one remained unread for a long time. Now I only read 2 books together , one of which is a classic. And among the classics I alternate the ancient ones with the modern ones. It's a program that I've been carrying out for over two years now and I'm very happy with it. It is a sort of imposition, at least at first Special Data glance it would seem so, but I don't see it as an imposition, given that in any case I read what attracts me at that moment between classics and moderns. The importance of the Latin and Greek classics Reading the classics is not always easy. The language has changed and some authors can be a little hard to understand. I still remember reading Manzoni's Adelchi at the 4th high school: I hated it, because I didn't understand anything about it. Reading the Latin and Greek classics can be even more difficult, but it depends on the work.
Reading Caesar's De Bello Gallico and De Bello Civili , as well as Herodotus' Histories , is simple, despite the time that has passed. Reading the Iliad and the Odyssey (the latter still to be finished) was truly painful for me. I don't know what to expect with other ancient works that I have purchased, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses , Plato's Republic , Seneca's Letters to Lucilius and many others. But I know I will read them, because they are ultimately the foundations on which modern literature rests . I have always thought this: we cannot start writing if we don't know what was written at the dawn of literature and civilization. Maybe I'm wrong, but I still think so. The beauty of 19th century classics I couldn't think of a better word: for me the 19th century classics are just beautiful and they are the ones that perhaps I prefer to the others. It is enough to look at any list to realize the vast variety of stories that can be read. Let's also consider that the 19th century is one of my favorite historical periods (preferred to the current one in which I live, I mean) and reading one of those classics becomes a greater pleasure for me, even if the story isn't about that period (see The Betrothed ).