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Six memos for the next millennium, 1996, italo calvino. The lectures were originally written in italian and translated by patrick creagh. Italo calvino cast his lofty thoughts toward the pending millennium long before the rest of us. My faith in the future of literature rests on the knowledge that there are things that only literature, with its particular capacities, can give us. Buy six memos for the next millennium penguin modern classics later edition by calvino, italo, mclaughlin, martin, creagh, patrick isbn. All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by us and international laws. It was also the millennium of the book, in that it saw the bookobject take the form we know it by today. Some of the work i like best exhibits it, but it also seems to run counter to the desire for heavy solutions that seemingly characterize science.
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