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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Author: Italo Calvino
Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini
Unabridged: 3 hr 34 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 08/25/2017
Category: Fiction - Classics
Synopsis
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.