Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Six Memos for the Next Millennium (Italian: Lezioni americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio) is a book based on a series of lectures written by Italo Calvino for the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures at Harvard, but never delivered as Calvino died before leaving Italy. The lectures were originally written in Italian and translated by Patrick Creagh. The lectures were to be given in the fall of 1985, and Memos was published in 1988. The memos are lectures on the values of literature that Calvino felt were important for the coming millennium. At the time of his death Calvino had finished all but the last lecture.

The Memos

The values which Calvino highlights are:

Lightness
Quickness
Exactitude
Visibility
Multiplicity

All that is known of the sixth lecture is that it was to be on consistency.

External links

Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-81040-6

Works by Italo Calvino

Novels	The Path to the Nest of Spiders The Cloven Viscount The Baron in the Trees The Nonexistent Knight The Castle of Crossed Destinies Invisible Cities If on a winter's night a traveler Mr. Palomar

Story collections	The Crow Comes Last Marcovaldo Cosmicomics t zero Difficult Loves Under the Jaguar Sun

Other	Italian Folktales Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Omnibus titles	Our Ancestors The Complete Cosmicomics

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