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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
by Italo Calvino
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0674810406
- ISBN 13
- 9780674810402
- Seller
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Moraga, California, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1988. First printing (number line). Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 5 5/8 x 8 1/2. 4F. Sewn binding. cloth-covered boards, in dustjacket. A beautiful copy. Tight binding and square spine. No marks. A couple pages have small corner creases. Front free endpaper has some light toning from a newspaper clipping laid in. Unclipped, bright dustjacket has hardly any wear.
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. Readers will be astonished by the prescience of these lectures, which have only gained in relevance as Calvino’s “next millennium” has dawned.
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- Bookseller
- Fox & Hedgehog
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 874
- Title
- Six Memos for the Next Millennium
- Author
- Italo Calvino
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First printing (number line)
- ISBN 10
- 0674810406
- ISBN 13
- 9780674810402
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Date Published
- 1988
- Pages
- 124
- Size
- 5 5/8 x 8 1/2
- Keywords
- Literary criticism, Italian writers
- X weight
- 21 oz
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