Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
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- Author: Italo Calvino
- First Published: 1988
- Type of Work: Literary criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Arts
- Subjects: Literature, Writing, Literary criticism
Six Memos for the Next Millennium was the last book to be written by Italo Calvino, who in the last decades of his life gained a wide following of readers in the United States and England. Calvino was invited by Harvard University to give the Charles Eliot Norton lectures in Cambridge during the academic year 1985-1986. Calvino spent most of 1985 preparing the lectures; he wrote five of the planned series of six in Italy and intended to complete the sixth while in the United States. Just before the intended date of his departure for the United States, however, he died. The...
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