Six memos for the next millennium
By: Italo Calvino ; a new translation from the Italian by Geoffrey Brock
Contributors: Brock, Geoffrey, 1964- translator
Edition: First Mariner Books edition.
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9780544146679
Subjects: Literature; Philosophy; Literary style; History and criticism
Other titles: 6 memos for the next millennium
Work titles: Essays
Description: "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"--
Notes: Various printings.

Translation from the Italian of: Lezioni americane.

"First published in Italy as Lezioni americane, by Garzanti Libri, Milan, 1988. First published in the United States (in a translation by Patrick Creagh) by Harvard University Press in 1988 and subsequently by Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House, in 1993." -- Title page verso.

Translated from the Italian.
Table of contents: title: Lightness; title: Quickness; title: Exactitude; title: Visibility; title: Multiplicity; title: Translator's Note.