Six Memos for the Next Millennium (The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures, 1985-86)

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UPC:
9780679742371
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
8/31/1993
Release Date:
8/31/1993
Author:
Italo Calvino
Language:
english
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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 centurya fitting gift for the next millennium.