Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Italo Calvino
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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.
Genres: NonfictionEssaysWritingItalian LiteratureLiteraturePhilosophyClassicsItalyLiterary CriticismCriticism
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