Tag Archives: Calvino
Calvino’s Visibility
In this memo on Visibility, Calvino works at describing the quality within literature. In order to apply visibility, he addresses the imagination as a platform for visualization and describes two types of imaginative process. One, he says, starts with the … Continue reading
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Calvino’s Quickness
In this memo, Calvino explores the quality of quickness as both a component of literature and a element of our world. Within literature, Calvino discusses quickness through he exhibition of time in stories. He makes the cheeky remark that “time … Continue reading
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Calvino’s Multiplicity
As we approach this, the final memo, we encounter the final quality of literature established in Six Memos for the New Millenium. In the memo, Calvino explore the quality of multiplicity through the discussion of the innumerable disparate and similar … Continue reading
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Calvino’s Lightness
As Calvino’s first memo, Lightness holds a special place in the work. It is used to establish the method for the entire piece. He does this by approaching the quality of lightness from its binary opposite… weight. In Calvino’s opinion, … Continue reading
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Clavino’s Exactitude
Calvino move from quickness to exactitude and the process is repeated. Since the memo’s are the exploration of literary qualities, Calvino repeatedly discuss exactitude in terms of language. In his description, the use of words can either be exact enough … Continue reading
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