'Words connect the visible track to the invisible thing ... like a
fragile makeshift bridge cast across the void' With imagination and
wit, Italo Calvino sought to define the virtues of the great
literature of the past in order to shape the values of the future.
His effervescent last works, left unfinished at his death, were the
Charles Eliot Norton lectures, which he was due to deliver at
Harvard in 1985-86. These surviving drafts explore the literary
concepts closest to his heart: Lightness, Quickness, Multiplicity,
Exactitude and Visibility (Constancy was to be the sixth), in
serious yet playful essays that reveal his debt to the comic strip
and the folktale. This collection, now in a fluent and supple new
translation, is a brilliant precis of a great writer whose legacy
will endure through the millennium he addressed. Translated by
Geoffrey Brock 'The book I give most to people is Six Memos for the
Next Millennium' Ali Smith 'Wonderful . . . full of wit and
erudition' Daily Telegraph
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