false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166064848m/9812.jpg 9812 20 Italo Calvino cast his lofty thoughts toward the pending millennium long before the rest of us. Now that the zeitgeist has caught up with him, it seems a good time to revisit his <i>Six Memos for the Next Millennium,</i> an investigation into the literary values that he wished to bequeath to future generations. Calvino, the author of <i>Invisible Cities</i>, <i>If on a Winter's Night a Traveler</i>, and other postmodern fictional works, was to deliver these five "memos" (there was to be a sixth) as Harvard's Charles Eliot Norton Lectures in 1985-86, but he died before doing so. These lectures are dense, rigorous, and seemingly full of contradiction. The first is a paean to lightness (though "light like a bird," as Paul Valéry wrote, "and not like a feather"). Lightness is followed by quickness (without "presum[ing] to deny the pleasures of lingering"), exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity. The perfect antidote to writerly laziness. 2012 book 1988 Lezioni americane: Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio total:687|5:291|4:239|3:119|2:29|1:9| 687 2835 1009 54 5 2 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 20:46:27 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 31 19:24:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1989 Sun Sep 20 06:55:34 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 19:08:13 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Dec 08 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Sep 17 20:39:22 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 17 20:42:24 -0700 2009
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