Six Memos For The Next Millennium

Author: Italo Calvino

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  • : $23.00 AUD
  • : 9780241275955
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
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  • : August 2016
  • : 198mm X 129mm
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  • : 22.99
  • : September 2016
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  • : Italo Calvino
  • : Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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  • : 176
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Barcode 9780241275955
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Description

'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ...like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void' With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinished at his death, were the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, which he was due to deliver at Harvard in 1985-86. These surviving drafts explore the literary concepts closest to his heart: Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth), in serious yet playful essays that reveal his debt to the comic strip and the folktale. This collection, now in a fluent and supple new translation, is a brilliant precis of a great writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium he addressed. Translated by Geoffrey Brock 'The book I give most to people is Six Memos for the Next Millennium' Ali Smith 'Wonderful ...full of wit and erudition' Daily Telegraph

Author description

Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.