Lezioni americane
Subtitle: sei proposte per il prossimo millennio
By: Italo Calvino.
Series: Saggi blu
Publisher: Garzanti
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Milano
Language: ita
Number of pages: 121
Subjects: Literature -- Philosophy.; Style, Literary.; Literature -- History and criticism.
Description: "Six memos for the Next Millenium" is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: the universal values he pinpoints become the watch-words for out appreciation of Calvino himself. What should be cherished in literature? Calvino devotes one lecture, or memo to the reader, toe each of five indispensable qualities: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity. A sixth lecture, on consistency, was never committed to paper, and we are left only to ponder the possibilities. With this book, he gives us the most eloquent defense to literature written in our century - a fitting gift for the next millennium.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
The original text of the Charles Eliot Norton lectures 1985-86.
Table of contents: title: Leggerezza; title: Rapidità; title: Esattezza; title: Visibilità; title: Molteplicità.