Six Memos For The Next Millennium

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Six Memos For The Next Millennium

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ISBN: 9780099730514
author: Italo Calvino
language: English
number of pages: 128

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Italo Calvino   

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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 watchwords for our appreciation of Calvino himself.
What should be cherished in literature? Calvino devotes one lecture, or memo to the reader, to each of five indispensable qualities:
,
,
,
, and
. A sixth lecture, on
, was never committed to paper, and we are left only to ponder the possibilities. With this book, he gives us the most eloquent defense of literature written in the twentieth century as a fitting gift for the next millennium.

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