Six Memos for the Next Millennium
by Italo Calvino
Published for the first time: 1/1/1988
128 pages, Paperback
Genres: Writing, Italian Literature, Nonfiction, Essays, Philosophy, Literature, Classics
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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