The Road to San Giovanni [antikvár]

One day in the spring of 1985, Calvino told me he was going to write twelve more books. "What am I saying?" he added. "Maybe fifteen." Doubtless the first was to be Six Memos for the Next Millennium. As far as the second and third were concerned, I think he had only a vague idea himself. He would write hsts upon lists, changing some titles, altering the chronology of others. Of the works he was planning, one was to be made up of a series of "memory exercises." I have brought together five of these here, written between 1962 and 1977. But I know he meant to write others: "Instructions for the Other Self", "Cuba", "The Objects". Hence I felt I couldn't use his working title, "Passaggi obbligati", since it seems that many of the passages are missing. Esther Calvino