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Six Memos for the Next Millennium

By Italo Calvino
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino is a collection of lectures exploring the essential values that literature should carry into the future. Calvino highlights and celebrates qualities such as lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity, using examples from classic literature to modern storytelling. This insightful exploration melds philosophical reflections with an appreciation for the enduring power of literature.
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This book may appeal to you if you're fascinated by the timeless elements of literature and appreciate thought-provoking reflections on creativity and imagination. It offers a rich exploration of literary values such as quickness, lightness, and exactitude, making it a delightful read for anyone interested in the enduring power of storytelling and the arts.

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Six Memos for the Next Millennium

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A new translation of Calvino's influential last work

Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore the concepts of Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude, and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip and the folktale.

With his customary imagination and grace, he sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. This collection is a brilliant précis of the work of a great writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium he addressed.

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

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Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino is highly praised for its wit, erudition, and original approach to literature. It offers insightful commentary on some of the world's greatest writing and serves as a key to understanding Calvino's own work. Reviewers appreciate its depth and the way it sets readers thinking, with some noting how it enhances their appreciation of Calvino.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780241275955

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 August 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Geoffrey Brock

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 137g

Pages: 176

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Arts & Culture Biography & Memoir Italo Calvino Non-Fiction Penguin Books Penguin Classics Series: Penguin Modern Classics

About the Author

Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.

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