Six Memos For The Next Millennium
by:
Italo Calvino (author)
A series of lectures which Italo Calvino wrote in the final year of his life. Drawing on the works of Lucretius, Ovid, Boccaccio, Flaubert, Kundera, Perec and many more, he pinpoints the universal laws and literary values: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity.
A series of lectures which Italo Calvino wrote in the final year of his life. Drawing on the works of Lucretius, Ovid, Boccaccio, Flaubert, Kundera, Perec and many more, he pinpoints the universal laws and literary values: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780099730514 (0099730510)
ASIN: 99730510
Publish date: 1996
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 128
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
Language,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Italy,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Philosophy,
Theory,
Italian Literature
Let's start with the fact that Italo Calvino is one of my favorite writers of all time. His crystalline surrealism, easy tone (at least in translation), and whimsical subjects (by which I mean situations and characters, inclusive) are, to me, compelling. To say that I went into this book with a favo...
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