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I classici in prima persona comprende il testo inedito di un incontro tenuto da Giuseppe Pontiggia nel novembre 2002 presso l'università di Bologna (il suo ultimo intervento pubblico) e un breve saggio, entrambi dedicati a uno degli argomenti più cari allo scrittore: il rapporto con i classici.

The word most commonly used to describe Muriel Spark is ‘puzzling’. Spark was a puzzle, and so too are her books. She dealt in word games, tricks, and ciphers; her life was composed of weird accidents, strange coincidences and spooky events. Evelyn Waugh thought she was a saint, Bernard Levin said she was a witch, and she described herself as ‘Muriel the Marvel with her X-ray eyes’. Following the clues, riddles, and instructions Spark planted for posterity in her biographies, fiction, autobiography and archives, Frances Wilson aims to crack her code.

A study of the spiritual practices developed by the nineteenth-century American Transcendentalist movement and a case for their necessity today.