Seis propuestas para el próximo milenio
By Italo Calvino and Esther Calvino
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Italo Calvino
ITALO CALVINO (1923–1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century’s greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, If on a winter’s night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His works have been translated into dozens of languages.
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Colección de arena Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Las ciudades invisibles Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Seis propuestas para el próximo milenio Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDe fábula Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Palomar Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa especulación inmobiliaria Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5El barón rampante Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMundo escrito y mundo no escrito Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5El vizconde demediado Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEl caballero inexistente Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPor qué leer los clásicos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEl caballero inexistente Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Si una noche de invierno un viajero Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa jornada de un escrutador Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5La gran bonanza de las Antillas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nuestros antepasados: El vizconde demediado / El barón rampante / El caballero inexistente Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEl sendero de los nidos de araña Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Los amores difíciles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCorrespondencia (1940-1985) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La entrada en guerra Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBajo el sol jaguar Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5La nube de smog Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Orlando furioso: narrado en prosa del poema de Ludovico Ariosto Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLa hormiga argentina Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Por último, el cuervo Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEl camino de San Giovanni Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUn optimista en América Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsItalo Calvino: Universos y paradojas Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLos libros de los otros: Correspondencia (1947-1981) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Punto y aparte: Ensayos sobre literatura y sociedad Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In the five essays here (the sixth went unwritten because of the author's death), we are pointed towards a great variety of authors, ancient and modern, whose work exemplified one aspect of artistic value: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, and Multiplicity. Calvino includes himself in the fifth chapter and it is both sad and fascinating to speculate on what it tells us what direction he might have continued his writing had he lived. It will send a Goodreads member interested in such matters off to seek out the books mentioned.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A brilliant set of reflections on literature, art, historical development of ideas and modern times. Deserving of a reading once a year at least.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Calvino famous last speeches - he actually died before finishing the 6th and last one - in his light and clear style and literature analyse of what he considered would be the most important traits for literature in the XXI Century.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I would not be so drastic. I think we are always searching for something hidden or merely potential or hypothetical, following its traces whenever they appear on the surface. I think our basic mental processes have come down to us through every period of history, ever since our Paleolithic forefathers, who were hunters and gatherers. The word connects the visible trace with the invisible thing, the absent thing, the thing that is desired or feared, like a frail emergency bridge flung over an abyss.
Calvino's posthumous lectures are a grand gallop across a cherished earth of letters. The Six Memos For The Next Millennium are a celebration of Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility and Multiplicity (the sixth was never written at the time of Calvino's passing). The ruminations and citations extend from Ovid and Lucretius onward through Dante, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Cyrano, Valery, Flaubert, Musil and, especially, Borges. This is a wonderful construction, one without grandiosity, but teeming with an organic eloquence.
Were I to choose an auspicious image for the new millennium, I would choose that 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 ahs 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 cemetery for rusty old cars.