What is a classic? This question has been asked by many writers, such as T. S. Eliot, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve, Alain Viala or J. M. Coetzee. The common answer to this question is: Classics are outstanding works of art, which teach us human values and last over the centuries. In my project I explore another possibility and put the question in a different way: why classic? Following this question means, that classics are cultural artefacts and they are being used for different pourposes. This makes ›classics‹ a cultural practice of modelling, multimedial and intercultural distribution, and popularizing throughout different social or cultural groups. Thus classics are not meant to be something everlasting and unchangeable, but cultural phenomena with variable functions, which change according to the time and place they are used in and the specific milieu they are used by.

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