Book description
Italo Calvino's brilliant reflection on what makes great literature, from the classics to more contemporary works, punctuated with personal details about Calvino's own writing processes.
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…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Six Memos for the Next Millennium as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
It may be odd of me to include a book of academic lectures in a list like this, but I think Calvino’s Six Memos are accessible and valuable to anyone who appreciates literature and its “family tree.”
Its forward-thinking nature is sourced from Calvino’s deep knowledge and love for literature’s history and growth over time.
He pulls on so many different threads throughout and I love it as a reminder, a memo, from a genius like Calvino that the fabric of future great works are woven from those long threads stretching back to great works of the past.
It showed…
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