Six Memos for the Next Millennium

Wonderful … full of wit and erudition * Telegraph *A brilliant, original approach to literature, a key to Calvino’s own work and a thoroughly delightful and illuminating commentary on some of the world’s greatest writing * San Francisco Chronicle *I have always liked Calvino and after reading this book, I like him even more – Wang Xiaobo * The Pleasures of Thinking *Rich and deeply satisfying … this is very much a book that sets you off thinking … there is a universe in here – Nick Lezard * Guardian *Praise for Italo Calvino – :A genial as well as a brilliant writer – John UpdikeCalvino will continue to glitter, this strange, lonely prospector in the universe of words… a master in the empire of the imagination – Ian Thomson * Independent *Reading Calvino, you’re constantly assailed by the notion that he is writing down what you have always known, except that you’ve never thought of it before … he tells us, joyfully, wickedly, that there are things in the world worth loving as well as hating; and that such things exist in people, too. I can think of no finer writer to have beside me while Italy explodes, while Britain burns, while the world ends. – Salman RushdieNo-one can read Angela Carter or David Mitchell without thinking of Calvino. Salman Rushdie is enthusiastic in his naming of Calvino as a major influence on his work, as am I. – Jeanette Winterson

Italo Calvino, one of Italy’s finest postwar writers, has delighted readers around the world with his deceptively simple, fable-like stories. Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and raised in San Remo, Italy; he fought for the Italian Resistance from 1943-45. His major works include Cosmicomics (1968), Invisible Cities (1972), and If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979). He died in Siena in 1985, of a brain hemorrhage.

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