Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Book • 2013
This book is based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard.
Although Calvino died before delivering the lectures, the five completed memos were published posthumously.
The memos explore the literary qualities of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity, which Calvino believed were essential for literature in the coming millennium.
The lectures were intended to be a defense of literature and a guide to Calvino's own literary philosophy.
Although Calvino died before delivering the lectures, the five completed memos were published posthumously.
The memos explore the literary qualities of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity, which Calvino believed were essential for literature in the coming millennium.
The lectures were intended to be a defense of literature and a guide to Calvino's own literary philosophy.
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