by Italo Calvino · ISBN 9788811598152
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«Lezioni americane. Sei proposte per il prossimo millennio» is a collection of essays by Italo Calvino (Garzanti, 1988; 121 pp., in Italian).
The book arises from the lectures Calvino was preparing for Harvard and reflects on the essential literary values for the next millennium: lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity. The sixth lecture, devoted to consistency, remained unwritten.
The edition belongs to Garzanti's Saggi blu series and reproduces the original text of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard in 1985-1986, with bibliographic references.
A work of interest for readers of essays, literary theory and criticism, as well as for those who wish to know Calvino's thought.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
