Italo Calvino (placeholder)

Son of the two Italian agronomists, born in Cuba, resident author of Paris who was as much a French and Spaniard as he was an English.

Journalist, short-story writer, and novelist, whose whimsical and imaginative fables made him one of the most important fiction writers in the 20th century.

In “Six Memos for the Next Millennium” he left us five highly personal meditations on the art of writing (and living:) ‘Lightness,’ ‘Quickness,’ ‘Exactitude,’ ‘Visibility,’ ‘Multiplicity’ and ‘the art of begening and the art of ending’. These lectures are like a quintessential image for the author of such crystalline models of ‘weightless gravity’ as ‘The Nonexistent Knight,’ ‘Cosmicomics,’ ‘Invisible Cities’ and ‘If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler’ are classics already of the past century.

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