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Title: Six Memos for the Next Millennium/the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 1985-86 (Vintage International) by Italo Calvino ISBN: 0-679-74237-9 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 31 August, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.88 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: il futurismo
Comment: A new italian Futurist Manifesto, but this time a good one.
Rating: 5
Summary: nurturing concepts for all creative genres
Comment: It was a an Italian virtuoso contrabassist who told me to read these Lectures. Stefano plays all the arduously difficult new music literature for the contrabass. He travels with a violoncello,so he can play all that repertoire as well. When he plays this music he often ponders Calvino, five primary conceptual corridors toward what he thought of as literature,but music as well can be contemplated with these ideas. "Lightness", well music has a density, Mozart played games with it, and interpreting Mozart can be a treatise in the dialectic,the transformations and timbral modulations of lightness to heaviness.,ask any violinist.Calvino of course expounds on Kundera's popular book, on the weight of the lifeworld of living in the East,the coal-dusted passageways,or of a fallen love,begun transgressivly there as well. Dante is a frequent pilgrim(example) here the lightness of snow falling imperceptibly on the mountainside. "Quickness", but not how fast things move,(our Silicon Valley) odious airjets that may puncture the ozone layer,or violins, but the quickness of an image to transform our consciousness,to lighten it up from the cruel oppression of citylife.That's poetry. I think.Robert Musil is here as well, the complexity,the numbering imagination of his transitory work to modernity the opening two decades of this century,his "Man Without Qualities" a seemingly endless work.And Gedda's "Awfull Mess. . . " on the street a probing detective novel of complexity of a murder in Rome,on the way to the Labor Bureau of the Roman Government. In music I frequently think of Visibility when I have nothing to transport me into the bowels of a Bruckner or an Antheil Symphony,what do I see in the music,like the weight of this century in the "Largo" from the "Fifth Symphony" of Shostakovich.Multiplicity as well another Calvino chapter is here,sprouting its wings like a peacock, all around us if we only have the patience for it. To phanthom and explore all images of a work as looked at through a plexiglass. We seldom do that. How exact is art, "Exactitude" is what Leonardo di Vinci lived his life with, rewrote almost everything,Calvino tells us, as Leopardi,the Essays.
Rating: 5
Summary: Five Stars for Six Memos
Comment: My interest in reading this collection of essays stems from a curiousity about narrative structure. I found that, while Calvino writes candid insertions about his own works, and while he writes with great fluency of ancient, medieval, contemporary world writers, the power of this short book lies in his erudite observations and keen, bits of wisdom. Here's a sample: "Saving time is a good thing because the more time we save, the more we can afford to lose" (p. 46), and this one, "Were I to choose an auspicious image for the new millennium, I would choose this one: The sudden agile leap of the poet-philosopher who raises himself above the weight of the world, showing that with all his gravity he has the secret of lightness, and that what many consider to be the vitality of the times--noisy, aggressive, revving and roaring--belongs to the realm of death, like a cemetary for rusty, old cars" (p. 12).
Calvino writes about five different qualities of literature: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity (he had intended to write a sixth chapter on Consistency, before his untimely death). He examines these qualities closely, using his own facile language as the medium.
Read it, by all means.
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Title: Invisible Cities (A Harvest/Hbj Book) by Italo Calvino, William Weaver ISBN: 0156453800 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: May, 1978 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino, William Weaver, Archibald Colquhoun ISBN: 0156260557 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: September, 1985 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino ISBN: 0156226006 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: 04 October, 1976 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Why Read the Classics? by Italo Calvino ISBN: 0679743499 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, William Weaver ISBN: 0156439611 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: October, 1982 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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