4thace reviewed Six memos for the next millennium by Italo Calvino (The Charles Eliot Norton lectures ;)
Review of 'Six memos for the next millennium' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
In the five essays here (the sixth went unwritten because of the author's death), we are pointed towards a great variety of authors, ancient and modern, whose work exemplified one aspect of artistic value: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity. Calvino includes himself in the fifth chapter and it is both sad and fascinating to speculate on what it tells us what direction he might have continued his writing had he lived. It will send a Goodreads member interested in such matters off to seek out the books mentioned.