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v. C. Calvi di Coenzo, 4
42010 Mancasale (RE)
P.IVA 01683130353
tel. 0522924341 - fax. 0522924349
mail.
Lezioni Americane: the principles that inspire us
Essential to us was reading the book "Lezioni Americane” from Italo Calvino, with its five chapters, when we were about to write for the first time the institutional presentation of our society. The author, in 1985, uses five words, simple and direct ", to indicate some values, characters or specific features of the literature particularly important to him, to transmit and retain for the new millennium. Five words that, with the same simplicity and immediacy, expressed what we had in mind to say, we at Q&Oconsulting, to describe the style that characterizes our way of doing consulting and the approach that we try to respect in all our actions. We took some small fragments from the book, which may help you understand better what has impressed us and gave expression to our thoughts in describing our organizational consultancy work and vision.
Lightness
“..After exploring several streets and made several experiments, since time has come that I seek an overall definition for my work; I would suggest this: my operation was most often a subtraction of weight; I tried to lift weight now to human figures, now to the celestial bodies, to cities; especially I tried to remove the weight of the narrative structure and language. " "Soon I realized that between the facts of life that should have been my raw material and the lean and cutting edge that I wanted to prevail in my writing there was a gap that was costing me more and more effort to overcome. Maybe only then I was discovering the heaviness, inertia, opacity of the world: quality that immediately attack to writing, if you don't find way to escape.”
Quickness
“The century of motorization imposed the speed as a measurable value, whose records mark the history of progress in machinery and men. But mental speed cannot be measured and doesn't allow comparisons or races, nor can arrange its own results in historical perspective. Mental speed is a value itself, for the pleasure that causes in who is sensitive to this pleasure, not for practical use. A quick reasoning is not at all necessarily better than a weighted reasoning; but it communicates something special that just lies in his quickness. “
Accuracy
"Accuracy means for me mainly all three things:
a blueprint well defined and calculated; the evocation of Visual images clear, sharp, memorable; in Italian we have an adjective that does not exist in English, “icastico”, from Greek" eikastikòs”: a language as precise as possible from a lexical, as well as from “colours of thought and imagination” point of view”
a blueprint well defined and calculated; the evocation of Visual images clear, sharp, memorable; in Italian we have an adjective that does not exist in English, “icastico”, from Greek" eikastikòs”: a language as precise as possible from a lexical, as well as from “colours of thought and imagination” point of view”
Visibility
"If I included visibility in my list of values to be saved is to warn of the danger to lose a basic human capability: the power of focus visions even with our eyes closed, to spring colors and shapes from the alignment of black digits on a white page, thinking for images. I think about a possible pedagogy of imagination that teach how to control own inner vision without suffocating it and without letting it fall on the other hand in a confused, labile daydream, but allowing images enshrinement in a well-defined shape, memorable, self-sufficient, “icastica”. "
Multiplicity
“Excessive ambition of intentions can be reprehensible in many fields, not in literature. Literature lives only with boundless objectives, even beyond any possibility of realization. Only if poets and writers will undergo enterprises that no one else dares even imagine, literature will continue to have a function. Since science started distrusting general explanations and solutions other than sectorial and specialistics, the great challenge for literature is knowing how to weave together the various knowledge and the different codes in a multifaceted, prismatic vision of the world. "-
Excerpts freely taken from ' ' Lezioni Americane” by Italo Calvino