num_pages: 128
description: 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.
language: English
title: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
titlecomplete: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
genres: Essays, Philosophy, Literature, Italian Literature, Criticism, Italy, Classics, Nonfiction, Writing, Literary Criticism
ratings_count: 8910
publisher: Vintage