Six Memos for The Next Millenium.
by Calvino, Italo
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0674810406
- ISBN 13
- 9780674810402
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About This Item
Cambridge:: Harvard University Press,, 1988.. First Printing of the First US Edition. A Fine tight copy in a Fine bright unclipped dust jacket. Calvino was one of the world's best storytellers and in 1985 he prepared a series of lectures on the making of literature. Published her for the first time, Calvino pinpoints for future generations the six universal values he believed were critical to the appreciation of literature. These values include: 'lightness', 'quickness', 'exactitude', 'visibility', 'multiplicity' and 'consistency.' Together these memos to writers of the future provide is with Calvino's eloquent 'defense of literature.'
Synopsis
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
- Gregor Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27758
- Title
- Six Memos for The Next Millenium.
- Author
- Calvino, Italo
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing of the First US Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0674810406
- ISBN 13
- 9780674810402
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press,
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge:
- Date Published
- 1988.
- Keywords
- Literature
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