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Author: V. Cappozzo DownloadEditor: ISBN: 9788896117576 Size: 10,34 MB Format: PDF, Kindle Read: 760 Umberto Eco And The Open Text
Author: Peter Bondanella DownloadEditor: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521020879 Size: 10,35 MB Format: PDF, Kindle Read: 201 Umberto Eco is Italy's most famous living intellectual, known among academics for his literary and cultural theories, and to an enormous international audience through his novels, The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. Umberto Eco and the Open Text is the first comprehensive study in English of Eco's work. In clear and accessible language, Peter Bondanella considers not only Eco's most famous texts, but also many occasional essays not yet translated into English. Tracing Eco's intellectual development from early studies in medieval aesthetics to seminal works on popular culture, postmodern fiction, and semiotic theory, he shows how Eco's own fiction grows out of his literary and cultural theories. Bondanella cites all texts in English, and provides a full bibliography of works by and about Eco.
Author: Jonathan White DownloadEditor: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 0802094589 Size: 20,56 MB Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi Read: 469 In Italian Cultural Lineages, Jonathan White seeks answers to the elusive questions: what is Italian culture and what is the Italian identity? By tracing Italian life and art through several themes – viewing and spectatorship, fantasy, passion, justice, reputation, and lifestyles – White offers new ways of perceiving an ancient cultural tradition in the twenty-first century. In doing so, he challenges readers to discern rich poetic seams that bind together his varied subject matter. Italian Cultural Lineages is primarily concerned with factors that unify Italians, however geographically dispersed they may be. Drawing on extensive archival and historical research, White shows how oftentimes Italian cultural traditions that appear to be extinct are, in fact, enduring – pushed out of the mainstream or submerged at some given point in history, only to re-surface and take on new meanings at a later date. Other, more marginal currents might disrupt and fragment Italian identity, politically and socially. However, White proposes that the challenge to Italy in these new and difficult lessons in tolerance has the potential to produce a much stronger culture, primed to welcome the marginal into an expanded spirit of all that counts as Italian. Ideally suited to course use, and written with great lucidity, Italian Cultural Lineages will prove fascinating to students, academics, and general readers alike. Italo Calvino S Architecture Of Lightness
Author: Letizia Modena
Editor: Routledge ISBN: 1136730591 Size: 14,56 MB Format: PDF, ePub, Docs Read: 835 This study recovers Italo Calvino's central place in a lost history of interdisciplinary thought, politics, and literary philosophy in the 1960s. Drawing on his letters, essays, critical reviews, and fiction, as well as a wide range of works--primarily urban planning and design theory and history--circulating among his primary interlocutors, this book takes as its point of departure a sweeping reinterpretation of Invisible Cities. Passages from Calvino's most famous novel routinely appear as aphorisms in calendars, posters, and the popular literature of inspiration and self-help, reducing the novel to vague abstractions and totalizing wisdom about thinking outside the box. The shadow of postmodern studies has had a similarly diminishing effect on this text, rendering up an accomplished but ultimately apolitical novelistic experimentation in endless deconstructive deferrals, the shiny surfaces of play, and the ultimately rigged game of self-referentiality. In contrast, this study draws on an archive of untranslated Italian- and French-language materials on urban planning, architecture, and utopian architecture to argue that Calvino's novel in fact introduces readers to the material history of urban renewal in Italy, France, and the U.S. in the 1960s, as well as the multidisciplinary core of cultural life in that decade: the complex and continuous interplay among novelists and architects, scientists and artists, literary historians and visual studies scholars. His last love poem for the dying city was in fact profoundly engaged, deeply committed to the ethical dimensions of both architecture and lived experience in the spaces of modernity as well as the resistant practices of reading and utopian imagining that his urban studies in turn inspired.
Author: José Manuel Losada Goya DownloadEditor: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443838152 Size: 11,26 MB Format: PDF, ePub, Docs Read: 834 This bilingual work aims to identify and explain the subversive rewriting of ancient, medieval and modern myths in contemporary novels. The book opens with two theoretical essays on the subject of subversive tendencies and myth reinvention in the contemporary novel. From there, it moves on to the analysis of essential texts. Firstly, classical myths in works by authors such as André Gide, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortázar, Italo Calvino or Christa Wolf (for instance, Theseus, Oedipus or Medea) are discussed. Then, myths of biblical origin – such as the Flood or the Golem – are revisited in the work of Giorgio Bassani, Julian Barnes and Cynthia Ozick. A further section is concerned with the place of modern myths (Faust, the ghost, Ophelia…) in the fiction of Günter Grass, Paul Auster, or Clara Janés. The contributors have also delved into the relationship between myth and art – especially in the discourse of contemporary advertising, painting and cinema – and myth’s intercultural dimensions: hybridity in the Latin American novels of Augusto Roa Bastos and Carlos Fuentes, and in the Hindu-themed novels of Bharati Mukherjee. This volume emerges from the careful selection of 37 essays out of over 200 which were put forward by outstanding scholars from 25 different countries for the Madrid International Conference on Myth and Subversion (March 2011). Este volumen bilingüe identifica y explica la práctica subversiva aplicada a los mitos antiguos, medievales y modernos en la novela contemporánea. Abren el libro dos estudios teóricos sobre la tendencia subversiva y la reinvención de mitos en la actualidad. Prosigue el análisis de diversos textos de primera importancia. En primer lugar se revisan los mitos clásicos en autores como André Gide, Thomas Pynchon, Julio Cortázar, Italo Calvino o Christa Wolf (p. ej., Teseo, Edipo, Medea). En segundo lugar, la reescritura de los mitos bíblicos según Giorgio Bassani, Julian Barnes o Cynthia Ozick (p. ej., el diluvio o el Golem). En tercer lugar, mitos modernos en la ficción de Günter Grass, Paul Auster o Clara Janés (p. ej., Fausto, el fantasma, Ofelia). El volumen presta igualmente atención a las relaciones entre mito y arte (su recurrencia en la publicidad, la pintura y el cine contemporáneos) y a la vertiente intercultural de los mitos: el mestizaje en la novela latinoamericana de Augusto Roa Bastos y Carlos Fuentes, o en la de temática hindú de Bharati Mukherjee. La compilación resulta de una exquisita selección de 37 textos entre los más de 200 propuestos para el Congreso Internacional Mito y Subversión (Madrid, marzo de 2011) por investigadores de prestigio procedentes de 25 países. Digression
Author: Olivia Santovetti DownloadEditor: Peter Lang ISBN: 9783039105502 Size: 13,86 MB Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi Read: 188 This volume examines the workings of digression in the novels of five major Italian authors - Manzoni, Dossi, Pirandello, Gadda and Calvino - from the birth of the modern novel in the early 19th century to the era of postmodernist experimentation.
Author: Teodolinda Barolini DownloadEditor: Fordham Univ Press ISBN: 9780823227051 Size: 10,35 MB Format: PDF, Mobi Read: 920 In this book, Teodolinda Barolini explores the sources of Italian literary culture in the figures of its lyric poets and its “three crowns”: Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Barolini views the origins of Italian literary culture through four prisms: the ideological/philosophical, the intertextual/multicultural, the structural/formal, and the social. The essays in the first section treat the ideology of love and desire from the early lyric tradition to the Inferno and its antecedents in philosophy and theology. In the second, Barolini focuses on Dante as heir to both the Christian visionary and the classical pagan traditions (with emphasis on Vergil and Ovid). The essays in the third part analyze the narrative character of Dante’s Vita nuova, Petrarch’s lyric sequence, and Boccaccio’s Decameron. Barolini also looks at the cultural implications of the editorial history of Dante’s rime and at what sparso versus organico spells in the Italian imaginary. In the section on gender, she argues that the didactic texts intended for women’s use and instruction, as explored by Guittone, Dante, and Boccaccio—but not by Petrarch—were more progressive than the courtly style for which the Italian tradition is celebrated. Moving from the lyric origins of the Divine Comedy in “Dante and the Lyric Past” to Petrarch’s regressive stance on gender in “Notes toward a Gendered History of Italian Literature”—and encompassing, among others, Giacomo da Lentini, Guido Cavalcanti, and Guittone d’Arezzo—these sixteen essays by one of our leading critics frame the literary culture of thirteenth-and fourteenth-century Italy in fresh, illuminating ways that will prove useful and instructive to students and scholars alike. Occult Joyce
Author: Enrico Terrinoni DownloadEditor: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1443808660 Size: 14,89 MB Format: PDF, Docs Read: 824 Ulysses is in many ways an occult text, in that it deliberately hides meanings and significances from sight, and compels the reader to unveil its secrets by reading it backwards, from deceiving surfaces to underlying truths. To discuss the occult in Joyce is to analyse “the hidden” in the text. Ulysses is a “human” book. Its most profound meanings are encrypted beneath the surface of its “body.” To discover what’s concealed behind it implies an effort of anthropological archaeology. Accordingly, readers become really interpreters of the occult. Only by following the traces and signs left on the textual surface will they eventually dig out what lies dormant beneath. Joyce was extremely well-read in the occult. The variety of texts on the subject he possessed shows that his position was very eclectic, as if the occult were a kind of amalgam of different traditions, all marked by the signature of secrecy. In his own view, theosophy, mysticism, magic, spiritism, and the so-called occult science blend together to form a cluster of obscure erudition where he finds provocative ideas, helpful in building up his own cryptic system. To read Ulysses hermetically is also a way to show that the act of reading itself is always an experiment. The good thing about readings is that they are always provisional. Reading as a creative process implies the awareness that one will always be quite uncertain as to what lies hidden behind those concatenations of syllables and words we call texts. Interpretation is in fact a mark of our freedom, and all original readings are always subversive and provocative. Criticism to some extent implies often some kind of a subversive attitude, and the game of literature is a useful working ground for attempting to change its possible worlds. To see through surface inanity, in Ulysses, helps us understand that to read is often an act of revolt and resistance to past authoritative interpretations. Excavating the occult in Joyce’s masterpiece is a way to face more canonical readings that preferred not to acknowledge fully the author’s fondness for, and deep knowledge of, the subject. 'This is a book which has the gift of explanation rather than simplification - and it will help to move Joyce Studies into new and exciting areas of investigation.' Prof. Declan Kiberd, UCD Dublin School of English and Drama 'Dr. Terrinoni's work is a very well researched and penetrating study of the occult and hidden in 'Ulysses' finding connections and meanings ignored or misunderstood by other scholars. It is a real contribution to Joyce Studies.' Prof. Clive Bloom, Middlesex University
Author: Paolo Magrassi DownloadEditor: Lulu.com ISBN: 1105343626 Size: 10,59 MB Format: PDF, Docs Read: 571 The Oxford Companion To English Literature
Author: Dinah Birch DownloadEditor: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191030848 Size: 15,67 MB Format: PDF, Docs Read: 546 The Oxford Companion to English Literature has long been established as the leading reference resource for students, teachers, scholars, and general readers of English literature. It provides unrivalled coverage of all aspects of English literature - from writers, their works, and the historical and cultural context in which they wrote, to critics, literary theory, and allusions. For the seventh edition, the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated to meet the needs and concerns of today's students and general readers. Over 1,000 new entries have been added, ranging from new writers - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patrick Marber, David Mitchell, Arundhati Roy - to increased coverage of writers and literary movements from around the world. Coverage of American literature has been substantially increased, with new entries on writers such as Cormac McCarthy and Amy Tan and on movements and publications. Contextual and historical coverage has also been expanded, with new entries on European history and culture, post-colonial literature, as well as writers and literary movements from around the world that have influenced English literature. The Companion has always been a quick and dependable source of reference for students, and the new edition confirms its pre-eminent role as the go-to resource of first choice. All entries have been reviewed, and details of new works, biographies, and criticism have been brought right up to date. So also has coverage of the themes, approaches and concepts encountered by students today, from terms to articles on literary theory and theorists. There is increased coverage of writers from around the world, as well as from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and of contextual topics, including film and television, music, and art. Cross-referencing has been thoroughly updated, with stronger linking from writers to thematic and conceptual entries. Meanwhile coverage of popular genres such as children's literature, science fiction, biography, reportage, crime fiction, fantasy or travel literature has been increased substantially, with new entries on writers from Philip Pullman to Anne Frank and from Anais Nin to Douglas Adams. The seventh edition of this classic Companion - now under the editorship of Dinah Birch, assisted by a team of 28 distinguished associate editors, and over 150 contributors - ensures that it retains its status as the most authoritative, informative, and accessible guide to literature available.
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'La 'Leggerezza', la 'Rapidità', l'Esattezza', la 'Visibilità', la 'Molteplicità' dovrebbero in realtà informare non soltanto l'attività degli scrittori ma ogni gesto della nostra troppo sciatta, svagata esistenza.' (Dalla quarta di copertina di Gian Carlo Roscioni alla prima edizione)
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Mar 14, 2015Riku Sayuj rated it really liked it · review of another edition
This is a series of lectures and in each of them Calvino takes it upon himself to recommend to the next millennium a particular literary value which he holds dear, and has tried to embody in his work. That way this book becomes not only a manifesto on how to write but also a guide to interpreting Calvino’s writings. 1) Lightness: not frivolity but a lightness of touch that allows the writer and reader to soar above the paralyzing heaviness of the world. 2) Quickness: the mental speed of the narra..more
Shelves: 20th-century, essay, literature, italian, non-fiction, writing, theory, criticism
Lezioni americane: sei proposte per il prossimo millennio = Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The lectures were originally written in Italian and translated by Patrick Creagh. The lectures were to be given in the fall of 1985, and Memos was published in 1988. The memos are lectu..more
Jan 20, 2016Simona Bartolotta rated it really liked it · review of another edition
(English review at the bottom)
Per spiegarvi perché bisognerebbe leggere questo saggio a tutti, anche a chi di letteratura non gliene importa e non ne mastica, userò una citazione, una soltanto. Siamo nella prima lezione, Leggerezza. Uno degli emblemi di questo valore per Calvino è il Cavalcanti protagonista della novella VI,9 del Decameron, un personaggio silenzioso, solitario, un personaggio, anche, che all'inizio della novella in questione sembra molte cose, ma non leggero: è un intellettuale,..more
Jul 23, 2014Forrest rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Let's start with the fact that Italo Calvino is one of my favorite writers of all time. His crystalline surrealism, easy tone (at least in translation), and whimsical subjects (by which I mean situations and characters, inclusive) are, to me, compelling. To say that I went into this book with a favorable view of the author would be a gross understatement. I absolutely adore Calvino's work. Jul 22, 2018Hadrian rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Now, I am also discovering that I don't really like many books about writing. Moorcock's Death is No Obstacl..more
Shelves: nonfiction, italian, essays, literary-theory-criticism
Collection of five literary essays, out of a planned six, which were supposed to be delivered at Harvard before Calvino's untimely death in 1985 (then again whenever he died would have been too early).
Less strict demarcations, more on what Calvino loves and how other authors do it - though he does quote himself extensively. He goes all over the place, and revels in the paradox, the contradiction, or the provocative image. I can't really summarize it, as he goes all over the place and leaves you..more
Feb 12, 2014Jonfaith rated it really liked it · review of another edition
I would not be so drastic. I think we are always searching for something hidden or merely potential or hypothetical, following its traces whenever they appear on the surface. I think our basic mental processes have come down to us through every period of history, ever since our Paleolithic forefathers, who were hunters and gatherers. The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an aby..more
Jan 05, 2015Sumirti Singaravel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Recommends it for: Literary Lovers and Calvino Fans
Shelves: amazing-work, favorite-authors, literature, non-fiction, on-writing, favorites, small-and-beautiful, super-favorites, lights-on-my-coast, winged-words
INTERVIEWER: What place, if any at all, does delirium have in your working life? ITALO CALVINO: Delirium? . . . Let’s assume I answer, I am always rational. Whatever I say or write, everything is subject to reason, clarity, and logic. What would you think of me? You’d think I’m completely blind when it comes to myself, a sort of paranoiac. If on the other hand I were to answer, Oh, yes, I am really delirious; I always write as if I were in a trance, I don’t know how I write such crazy things..more
Recommends it for: those who care about literature as a medium
Calvino is just so effortlessly wonderful. He and literature have a very intimate relationship and she tells him secrets about herself that no one else gets to hear. Until now! Calvino spills the beans on what are the qualities he feels are most important to the literature of the future: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity.
I think my favorites were lightness and multiplicity considering that quickness, exactitude, and visibility seem to be very self-evidently positive..more
Apr 05, 2012Nate D rated it liked it · review of another edition
Italo Calvino, given the meticulousness and conceptual cohesion of his storytelling, is an unsurprisingly lucid theorist as well. Among his final works, these five essays were drawn from lectures he he was prevented from delivering by his death in 1985, each covering a different literary trait he most valued. (A 6th was never written down.) Equally ordered and discursive, each offers insight into Calvino's writing (though much of it this is self-evident in the writing, as well), commentary on li..more
Jul 19, 2011Jim Coughenour rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
After posting a couple grumbling reviews, I owe the world of authors some gratitude. I first read Calvino's little book in 1988 and periodically I pick it up and read parts of it again. Six Memos are actually five lectures – illuminating the qualities Calvino most valued in fiction: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity. What's almost miraculous is that Calvino's lectures are perfect examples of the virtues he celebrates – graceful, amused, lustrous with civilized intelli..more
Sep 20, 2009Tim rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I've had the uncanny experience of having read this book around when it came out and forgotten most of it, yet rereading it is sort of like being under hypnosis, as it essentially embodies a great deal of what I strive for in my own aesthetic and weltanschauung and how I prepare food and live when you get down to it. In his ode to lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility, and multiplicity, Calvino dazzles in his apparently effortless incorporation of all of these qualities, even while admitt..more
Jan 03, 2014Farhan Khalid rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Lightness Dec 14, 2018Walter Schutjens rated it liked it · review of another edition
I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies. Sometimes from cities At certain moments I felt that the entire world was turning into stone With myths, one should not be in a hurry It is better to let them settle into the memory It is true that software cannot exercise its powers of lightness except through the weight of hardware The iron machines still exist, but they obey the orders of weightless bits Quickness Death is hidden in clocks Tristram Shandy d..more
Shelves: literature, philosophy, non-fiction, philosophy-theory
This book contains many insightful passages on the nature of how literature shapes the world around us, and ultimately our identity.
“My discomfort arises from the loss of form that I notice in life, which I try to oppose with the only weapon I can think of, an idea of literature” Why it is important to be able to fantasize those things greater than the self, and if this greater collective of ideas and reference points creates a novel of multiplicity or simply confusion. How the use of language..more
Nov 29, 2012Jim rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I just had the nasty experience of writing a review of this book which Goodreads lost somewhere between the moons of Uranus and the neighborhood of Alpha Centauri. Phoooey!
To summarize briefly, Italo Calvino chooses six (actually five) traits he would like to see carried forward into a millennium which, alas, he did not live to see.It almost doesn't matter what these traits are: It only matters that Calvino took all of literature and examined it through his jeweler's loupe, showing us new relati..more
Jun 18, 2013Tripp added it · review of another edition
Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity are the five memos Calvino completed for the 1985-86 Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard. He died before completing the sixth memo, Consistency. The five we have are gems, and hopeful ones at that: 'My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it,' he writes in a prefatory note, and proceeds to describe the qualities he values in..more
Sep 30, 2007Jason rated it it was amazing ·
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Shelves: non-fiction, mustreread, favorites
Calvino nails it:
'It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty--that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a loss of cognition and immediacy, an automatism that tends to level out all expression into the most generic, anonymous, and abstract formulas, to dilute meanings, to blunt the edge of expressiveness, extinguishing the spark that shoots out from the collision of words and new circumstances. At..more
Jan 18, 2018Giuseppe Porcaro rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
That's one of the best books I ever read about writing.
Sep 08, 2017Dana Safian rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
I need some time to grasp the whole thing.I'm sure this is one of those books that I'll be looking back at every six month or something..Calvino is an amazing 'reader'.One of the virtues of this book is that you get familiar with some excellent books you've never heard of.The book gets a little bit vague sometimes but I decided to ignore it and enjoy the context.
'Six memos..' is consisted of actually five lectures on:Lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility , multiplicity and the last lect..more
Sep 10, 2014Jan van Leent rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
'Six memos for the next Millennium' by Italo Calvino is a collection of five Charles Eliot Norton Lectures written in 1985/1986 about what should be cherished in literature with intriguing titles:
1 – Lightness, 2 – Quickness, 3 – Exactitude, 4 – Visibility, 5 – Multiplicity and the never written memo '6 – Consistency'. In my opinion these lectures transcend “Goodreads”, these lectures are a must-reads for every serious writer and reader! The third memo by Italo Calvino – Exactitude – begins as follows:..more
May 31, 2011Ben rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Six Memos represents the English translations of essays on literature prepared by Italo Calvino for the Eliot Norton Lectures. Tragically, Calvino died a few months before delivering his discussions, but the existing manuscript was discovered by his widow, Esther, “all in perfect order, in the Italian original, on his writing desk ready to be put into his suitcase.”
Completed herein are five of the six “memos”: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity with Consistency being..more
Jul 14, 2012Ashen rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Re-read, slowly, after many years. A slim book about meditations on literary values, full of poignant little stories. The themes are: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility and Multiplicity.
In the Quickness chapter Calvino talks about the 'object of power' as protagonist, and about repeated situations, phrases and formulas, as so often found in fairy tales. He considers the importance of difference, not blunting but sharpening differences. He offers examples from literature regarding vast..more
Jul 07, 2014Dhandayutha rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Believe me i have not read any of Calvino fictions works till now.This is my first read.I really loved it for the very reason for the play of dialectics.He never talks about weight instead he talk about lightness, similarly [Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity]. As with many authors he never use the code of mysticism, instead indulge in scientific theories to prove his point. That is the factor which interested me, gives the hope that these things are possible.
Sep 03, 2012Andrew added it · review of another edition
It sounds weird and slightly retarded to say it, but Calvino was good with words.
Revisiting a great many themes he discussed in The Uses of Literature, he breaks down what he values in reading and writing, and shows examples of the qualities he admires. Throughout, he's an entirely witty, charming commentator. I mean, the categories for literature that he espouses sometimes seem a wee bit arbitrary, but I didn't really care. He makes his case and makes it well.
Mar 04, 2013Judith Shadford rated it liked it · review of another edition
Very much worth reading, not least because Calvino's approach to writing is so different from my own mentors. And the literature referenced so different from my reading (which never has been the original Italian!) I loved his first section on Lightness, not least because he quotes the Perseus-Medusa story in such wonderful detail. That metaphor will stay with me a long time.
Dec 15, 2008Chanel Earl rated it really liked it · review of another edition
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This book contains five essay, which each discuss a characteristic of good writing. I like the essays on lightness, quickness, exactitude and multiplicity. The essay on visibility lost me.
I think the overabundance of foreign languages was also annoying.
Sep 17, 2009Ryan Werner rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Italo Calvino's lectures on his hope for the future of literature show a deep understanding of both its changing and persistent qualities.
Italian writer Italo Calvino (1923-1985) starts Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Trans. Patrick Creagh. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1988, ISBN: 0679742379) off with a single paragraph introduction, stating near the end of it that his 'confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means..more
Jan 07, 2019Mina-Louise rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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Sep 18, 2018Antonio rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
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Jun 26, 2012Nicola rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Amazing how these memos, which Calvino wrote in 1985, apply to so much of the literature that followed. Certain memos/ideas--'lightness,' and 'multiplicity'--seem integral to postmodernism. Other memos--especially the ones on 'exactitude,' 'quickness,' and 'visibility'--seem integral to good writing in general.
Though I'm not a personal fan of PoMo, I am--aren't we all?--a product of it in many ways--kind of like when you're born in the '80s, you aren't actively doing it, but are definitely affe..more
Jul 11, 2011rory rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
A much-needed reminder of why I write, and of what writing can do that no other art can. Each 'memo' is centered on a different quality that Calvino considers essential to literature (and thus timeless). His thoughts on lightness and exactitude especially (but to me the entire second half of the book is really about exactitude) will continue to blow my mind for a long time.
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Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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