Description: Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Paperback by Calvino, Italo; Brock, Geoffrey (TRN), ISBN 0544146670, ISBN-13 9780544146679, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Italo Calvinos brilliant reflection on what makes great literature, from the classics to more contemporary works, punctuated with personal details about Calvinos own writing processes.
At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature, but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself.
Calvino devotes one “memo” each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity, drawing examples from his vast knowledge of myth, folklore, and works both ancient and modern. Readers will be astonished by the prescience of these lectures, which have only gained in relevance as Calvino’s “next millennium” has dawned.
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Book Title: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: HarperCollins
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Speeches, General, Semiotics & Theory, Books & Reading, Jewish
Publication Year: 2016
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Item Weight: 4.9 Oz
Author: Italo Calvino
Item Length: 8 in
Item Width: 5.3 in
Format: Trade Paperback
