Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
Six Memos for the Next Millennium
Italo Calvino
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Wonderful . . . full of wit and erudition
Wonderful . . . full of wit and erudition
A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing
I have always liked Calvino and after reading this book, I like him even more
Rich and deeply satisfying ... this is very much a book that sets you off thinking ... there is a universe in here
Praise for Italo Calvino
A genial as well as a brilliant writer
Calvino will continue to glitter, this strange, lonely prospector in the universe of words. . . a master in the empire of the imagination
Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before . . . he tells us, joyfully, wickedly, that there are things in the world worth loving as well as hating; and that such things exist in people, too. I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, while Britain burns, while the world ends.
No-one can read Angela Carter or David Mitchell without thinking of Calvino. Salman Rushdie is enthusiastic in his naming of Calvino as a major influence on his work, as am I.
Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.
Wonderful . . . full of wit and erudition
A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino's own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world's greatest writing
I have always liked Calvino and after reading this book, I like him even more
Rich and deeply satisfying ... this is very much a book that sets you off thinking ... there is a universe in here
Praise for Italo Calvino
A genial as well as a brilliant writer
Calvino will continue to glitter, this strange, lonely prospector in the universe of words. . . a master in the empire of the imagination
Reading Calvino, you're constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you've never thought of it before . . . he tells us, joyfully, wickedly, that there are things in the world worth loving as well as hating; and that such things exist in people, too. I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, while Britain burns, while the world ends.
No-one can read Angela Carter or David Mitchell without thinking of Calvino. Salman Rushdie is enthusiastic in his naming of Calvino as a major influence on his work, as am I.
Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.