Publisher's Synopsis
Taking "lightness, speed, accuracy, explicitness, and complexity" as literary standards to explore better aesthetics and life. Thirty-fifth anniversary of publication, first literal translation into Italian. Surprisingly includes the unpublished manuscript of "Lecture 8". Why does literature exist? Where does imagination come from? The final masterpiece, the summary is the starting point. This book is a collection of six speeches that Calvino wrote for bibliophiles when he was invited to the Norton Lectures at Harvard University in the last year of his life. It explains the outstanding works in his eyes through five themes: "Light, Fast, Accurate, Explicit, and Complex."
