Summer is the perfect season for reading classics. Don't waste this pure pleasure for the book.

When readers of Non sprecare ask the classic holiday question – What to read during the summer? – our instinctive but convinced response is always the same: the classicsThere is no better season of the year to indulge in the pure pleasure of readings that range across the densest and richest universe of narrative, and there is no better place than a bed, an umbrella, or the cool of a tree to let yourself be lulled by the background music of stories that never cease to tell us something. Indeed: the more you read, the more you read. more and the more they have something to surprise us with.

WHAT TO READ IN SUMMER

Don't ask us for titles, as the list is truly endless, and trust your curiosity, to some good advice from people you consider reliable readers and therefore potential guides and/or advisers in your journey as book sniffers. But know that there is no classic, only one, that does not deserve to be read and rereadFor various reasons.

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THE GREAT CLASSICS OF LITERATURE

The most important is definitely the relevance of the classicsA novel by Tolstoy e Dostoevsky, a story of Balzac like a tome of Thomas Mann, will always take you by the hand and accompany you into the shadows, and sometimes into the lights, of man in his immortality, therefore super contemporary. Just read, and reread if necessary, the Betrothed di Alessandro Manzoni, and the entire genesis of the «Italian case», starting from our identity and our way of being a people, it will be very clear to you. The classic novel is therefore topicalism, even if you have the feeling, but only for a moment, that current events are distant. On the contrary, they are very close.

Furthermore, if reading is one of the great pleasures of our life, if reading is a journey, curiosity, knowledge, relationship with oneself and with others, then the classics express to the nth degree this fundamental quality of narrative. A book is forever, says a rather generic slogan: and yet it is absolutely true that nothing is more repeated than the scents released by reading a classic.

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CLASSICS TO READ UNDER THE UMBRELLA

The classics are like those mines that never run dryYou dig and find something. Then you stop, dig again, and find something again. You never waste anything in this search. Try a simple experiment: take a book, a classic, that you've read in the past and really enjoyed, and reread it. You'll see that there will be something new to discover, something you'll feel like you've overlooked and finally discovered. The same goes for a classic you didn't like in the past: try opening it again, maybe this time you'll devour it. Otherwise, let's say after about thirty pages, stop. There's no point in going on: if you don't like a classic, it doesn't mean you can't read or that you have strange tastes. Reading is a pleasure, as we have always said on our website and shared with the Non sprecare community, and it must be approached as such. Without feeling either obligated or overwhelmed by its power.

WHY READ THE CLASSICS

Rather, know, and this is also testified by great readers and authors (read a memorable collection of essays by Italo Calvino not by chance entitled «Why you should read the classics"), that reading a great book in adulthood can have very different effects and results, even from a psychological point of view, than reading it at a younger age. Or as a young person or teenager. Literature is always different even in this respect, and it never presents itself as the same.

Finally, the classic is a training bookAt any age. It's educational for children; it's no coincidence that the classics should be widely studied in schools, starting in elementary school; for adolescents, young people, and adults. For the elderly, both men and women. It's too late for anyone and it's too early for anyone. Finally, if you don't want to trust the advice of Don't waste, trust the words of an extraordinary critic, Godfrey Fofi (When you read his book recommendation, go buy it right away): he also suggests reading the classics during the summer. The best season to enjoy this joy. And don't waste it.

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