It takes the average reader 2 hours and 5 minutes to read Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
SIX MEMOS FOR THE NEXT MILLENNIUM is the text to a series of lectures which became an obsession for Italo Calvino in the last year of his life. Drawing on the works of Lucretius, Ovid, Boccaccio, Falubert, Kundera, Perec and many more, he pinpoints the universal laws and indispensable literary values future generations might cherish -lightness, quickness, exactitude, visibility and multiplicity. It is an eloquent and lively 'defence' of literature - a fitting gift for the next millennium.
Six Memos for the Next Millennium by Italo Calvino is 124 pages long, and a total of 31,496 words.
This makes it 42% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 52 minutes to read Six Memos for the Next Millennium aloud.
Six Memos for the Next Millennium is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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