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Six Memos for the Next Millenium is a collection of five lectures Italo Calvino was about to deliver at the time of his death. Here is his legacy to us: the universal values he pinpoints become the watch-words for out appreciation of Calvino himself.
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- English Books
- Hardcover 136 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0674810406
- ISBN-13: 9780674810402
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
- Pub date: Mar 01, 1988
- Dimensions: 1419 mm x 968 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Paperback and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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