Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
128 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0099730510
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Language: English
Publish: 820483200000
ClassicsCriticismEssaysItalian LiteratureItalyLiterary CriticismLiteratureNonfictionPhilosophyWriting
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 lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity.