Description: Further DetailsTitle: Six Memos for the Next MillenniumCondition: NewEAN: 9780241275955ISBN: 9780241275955Publisher: Penguin ClassicsFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 08/04/2016Language: ItalianItem Height: 198mmItem Length: 129mmItem Width: 9mmItem Weight: 134gAuthor: Italo CalvinoTranslator: Geoffrey BrockContributor: Geoffrey Brock (Translated by)ISBN-10: 0241275954Description: 'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void'With imagination and wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future. His effervescent last works, left unfinished at his death, were the Charles Eliot Norton lectures, which he was due to deliver at Harvard in 1985-86. These surviving drafts explore the literary concepts closest to his heart: Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity, Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth), in serious yet playful essays that reveal his debt to the comic strip and the folktale. This collection, now in a fluent and supple new translation, is a brilliant précis of a great writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium he addressed.Translated by Geoffrey Brock 'The book I give most to people is Six Memos for the Next Millennium' Ali Smith'Wonderful . . . full of wit and erudition' Daily TelegraphCountry/Region of Manufacture: GBGenre: Literary CriticismBook Series: Penguin Modern ClassicsRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Publication Name: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Title: Six Memos for the Next Millennium
EAN: 9780241275955
ISBN: 9780241275955
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 08/04/2016
Release Year: 2016
Language: Italian
Item Height: 198mm
Item Length: 129mm
Item Width: 9mm
Item Weight: 134g
Author: Italo Calvino
Translator: Geoffrey Brock
Contributor: Geoffrey Brock (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 0241275954
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
