Six Memos for the Next Millennium - Brossura

Calvino, Italo

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0544146670 ISBN 13: 9780544146679

Casa editrice: Mariner, 2016

Riassunto

“One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature.”—Boston Globe

“A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino’s own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world’s greatest writing.”—San Francisco Chronicle

At the time of his death, Italo Calvino was at work on six lectures setting forth the qualities in writing he most valued, and which he believed would define literature in the century to come. Here, in Six Memos for the Next Millennium, are the five lectures he completed, forming not only a stirring defense of literature, but also an indispensable guide to the writings of Calvino himself. He devotes one “memo” each to the concepts of lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity, drawing examples from his vast knowledge of myth, folklore, and works both ancient and modern. Readers will be astonished by the prescience of these lectures, which have only gained in relevance as Calvino’s “next millennium” has dawned.

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Recensione

"These brilliant lectures, or 'memos,' are at once an intellectual dance and a description of the qualities that make Calvino's fiction so readable and so satisfying . . . One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature." — Boston Globe  "Calvino's lectures [are] his shining literary testament . . . [He] is as entrancing a theorist as he is a tale-teller." — Los Angeles Times Book Review  "No one has written so well about that gifted and nimble Italian genius Italo Calvino as has the master himself in these five highly personal meditations on the art of writing." — New York Times Book Review  "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing." — San Francisco Chronicle  "A las exhortation, an encouragement to would-be creators of literature to digest the rules of survival Calvino has given them." — The Economist  "As close as we'll ever get to the intellectual autobiography of a writer whose significance seems likely to last well into that coming millennium he addresses so warmly in these lectures." — Wall Street Journal

"One of the most rigorously presented and beautifully illustrated critical testaments in all of literature." — Boston Globe "Calvino's lectures [are] his shining literary testament . . . [He] is as entrancing a theorist as he is a tale-teller." — Los Angeles Times Book Review "No one has written so well about that gifted and nimble Italian genius Italo Calvino as has the master himself in these five highly personal meditations on the art of writing." — New York Times Book Review "A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing." — San Francisco Chronicle "As close as we'll ever get to the intellectual autobiography of a writer whose significance seems likely to last well into that coming millennium he addresses so warmly in these lectures." —Wall Street Journal

"Enchanting... Calvino woos you... If you take the time to absorb this book, you will never read or write the same way again... he will provide you with a rich new way of looking and thinking." —PASTE MAGAZINE  

L'autore

ITALO CALVINO’s (1923-1985) superb storytelling gifts earned him international renown and a reputation as “one of the world’s best fabulists” (New York Times Book Review). At his death, at age sixty-one, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer. 

GEOFFREY BROCK is an award-winning translator and poet whose translations include works of Umberto Eco, Cesare Pavese, and others.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Mariner
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0544146670
• ISBN 13: 9780544146679
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 176