Reflexive reflections From: Artforum | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright Artforum Inc. Summer 2003. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

ITALO CALVINO'S GAME OF MIRRORS

BY MINNA PROCTOR [middot] THE ITALIAN WRITER ITALO CALVINO WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF PREPARING SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM FOR THE CHARLES ELIOT NORTON LECTURES AT HARVARD WHEN HE DIED SUDDENLY IN 1985. IT'S INTRIGUING TO IMAGINE THE DELIGHT HE MIGHT HAVE TAKEN IN THE PROSPECT OF TELLING AN AMERICAN AUDIENCE THAT "LIGHTNESS" AND "QUICKNESS" CAN PERFECTLY COEXIST AS LITERARY VALUES WITH THEIR APPARENT OPPOSITES "MULTIPLICITY" AND "EXACTITUDE." WHAT a perfectly Continental and postmodern proposition-all those opposing ideas intermingling. And the Memos were for ...

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