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Quotation from Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino
“'Your' classic is a book to which you cannot remain indifferent, and which helps you define yourself in relation or even in opposition to it.”
Why Read the Classics?, Definition 11, trans. Martin McLaughlin (1999)
Calvino's account of a personal classic, introduced through his own lasting quarrel with Rousseau.
Citation: "'Your' classic is a book to which you cannot remain indifferent, and which helps you define yourself in relation or even in opposition to it." — Italo Calvino, Why Read the Classics?, Definition 11, trans. Martin McLaughlin (1999). (id calvino-why-read-the-classics-q2)
