Cambridge, MA:: Harvard University Press,, 1988.. Hardcover first edition -. Fine in fine dust jacket.. First printing. Lectures on writing which Calvino was preparing to give at the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard in 1985-86. Includes a brief introduction by his wife in which she notes that these were an obsession with him in the last year of his life; he had planned on writing the 6th memo on "consistency" at Cambridge, and so his untimely death prevented this one from being written. Frontispiece. Translated from the Italian by Patrick Creagh. 124 pp.

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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. He 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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Bookseller's Inventory #: 88965
Title: SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM
Author: Calvino, Italo
Format/Binding: Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
Jacket Condition: fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0674810406
ISBN 13: 9780674810402
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Place of Publication: Cambridge, MA:
Date Published: 1988.
Keywords: essays, italian,
Bookseller catalogs: Literature in translation;

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