The Review of Contemporary Fiction, March 22nd, 2002
When Italo Calvino died in 1985 at the age of sixty-two, he was working on a series of six essays to be delivered at Harvard University under the auspices of the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures. Calvino completed only five of the essays, which have been collected under the title Six Memos for the Next Millennium. In his introduction to the lectures, Calvino writes: "My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by means specific to it" (1). Calvino realized that in order for literature to probe epistemological as wel...
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