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Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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Six Memos for the Next Millennium

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1985-86
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Six Memos for the Millennium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: the universal values he pinpoints become the watchwords for our appreciation of Calvino himself. What should be cherished in literature? Calvino devotes one lecture, or memo to the reader, to each of five indispensable qualities: "lightness," "quickness," "exactitude," "visibility," and "multiplicity." A sixth lecture, on "consistency," was never committed to paper, and we are left only to ponder the possibilities. With this book, he gives us the most eloquent defense of literature written in the twentieth century--a fitting gift for the next millennium.

Author Biography:

Italo Calvino (1923-1985) was born in Cuba, and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He was a member of the partisan movement during the German occupation of northern Italy in World War II. The novel that resulted from that experience, published in English as "The Path to the Nest of Spiders, "won widespread acclaim. His other works of fiction include "the Baron in the Trees, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves, If on a Winter's Night a Travelor, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, Mr. Palomar, The Nonexistent Knight & The Cloven Viscount, t zero, Under the Jaguar Sun, "and "The Watcher and Other Stories." His works of nonfiction include "Six Memos for the Next Millennium" and "The Uses of Literature," collections of literary essays, and the anthology "Italian Folktales."
Release date NZ
July 1st, 1996
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Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Undergraduate
Country of Publication
United States
Edition
1st Vintage International Ed
Imprint
Vintage Books
Pages
124
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Dimensions
133x203x10
ISBN-13
9780679742371
Product ID
1677702

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