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Six memos for the next millennium : The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86 / Italo Calvino ; translated by Patrick Creagh

This series of lectures, prepared for Harvard University, explores the literary virtues of lightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude, and visibility. The essays analyse the qualities of past literature to define essential values for the future.

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