Italo Calvino was due to deliver the Charles Eliot Nortonlectures at Harvard in 1985-86, but they were left unfinished athis death. The surviving drafts explore of the concepts oflightness, quickness, multiplicity, exactitude and visibility(Constancy was to be the sixth) in serious yet playful essays thatreveal Calvino's debt to the comic strip and the folktale. With hiscustomary imagination and grace, he sought to define the virtues ofthe great literature of the past in order to shape the values ofthe future. This collection is a brilliant precis of the work of agreat writer whose legacy will endure through the millennium headdressed.
【作者简介】
Italo Calvino, one of Italy's finest postwar writers, hasdelighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple,fable-like stories. He was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in SanRemo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. Hismajor works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972),and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in1985. Patrick Creagh won the John Florio Prize in 1972 for histranslation of the Selected Poems of Giuseppe Ungaretti, and againin 1990 for Danube by Claudio Magris and Blind Argus by GesualdoBufalino.
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