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Italo Calvino

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

English · Paperback

Description

Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Norton lectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished at his death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts of lightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude and visibility in serious yet playful essays that reveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip and the folktale.

Product details

Authors	Italo Calvino
Assisted by	Patrick Creagh (Translation), Martin Mclaughlin (Translation), Tim Parks (Translation), William Weaver (Translation)
Publisher	Penguin Books Uk

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback
Released	28.05.2009

EAN	9780141189697
ISBN	978-0-14-118969-7
No. of pages	144
Dimensions	130 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
Series	Penguin Modern Classics Penguin Modern Classics
Subject	Fiction > Narrative literature

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