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

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

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

by Italo Calvino

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Vintage, August 1993. Trade Paperback . Used Very Good. Light wear to cover, slightly bumped corners, pages clean and unmarked. Some pages have been previously dog-eared. We carry new and used books in our storefront. We want you to be satisfied with your purchase. Please contact us if you have questions regarding this item.

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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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Title
Six Memos for the Next Millennium/The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86 (Vintage International)
Author
Italo Calvino
Format/Binding
Trade Paperback
Book Condition
Used Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0679742379
ISBN 13
9780679742371
Publisher
Vintage
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published
August 1993
Pages
128
Bookseller catalogs
Lit/Criticism & History;

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