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Cover of Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino

Six Memos for the Next Millennium

1988·155 pages·Nonfiction

Literary Fiction

classics essays

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.

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Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Year

1988

Pages

155

Type

Nonfiction

Literary Fiction

Tags

classics essays

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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.

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