Calvino, Italo
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- ISBN 13:
- 9780241275955
- author:
- Calvino, Italo
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Penguin Classics
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2016
- Pages:
- 176
- Dimensions:
- 19.8 x 12.9 x 1 centimetres (0.1
- Genre:
- Fiction & Literature, Literary Criticsm, Books & Reading,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Italo Calvino's Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a collection of essays that explore the literary concepts closest to his heart. In these serious yet playful pieces, he reveals his debt to the comic strip and the folktale, offering insights into the values of great literature.
The book brings together five key ideas - Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude, and Visibility (Constancy) - which Calvino saw as essential for shaping the future of literature. Now in a fluent and supple new translation, this collection provides a brilliant précis of a great writer whose legacy will endure.
Translated by Geoffrey Brock, Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a thought-provoking exploration of the power of literature to connect us with the world around us.
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