
Six memos for the next millennium (The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ; #1985-86)
Literature, Criticism, Essays
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Summary
This work contains the 1985-86 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures that Italo Calvino was to have delivered at Harvard. The day before he was to leave Italy for Cambridge, he died. His widow, Esther, prepared the lectures for publication. Calvino here… deals with values of literature most dear to him: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity; consistency was to be the sixth. 1988. Uniform title: Essays.