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Six memos for the next millennium : The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86
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Six memos for the next millennium : The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86

by Italo Calvino, 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.

Accession 7412 ISBN 9780141189697 Publisher Penguin
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