โ Calvino, Italo
๐ Fiction
๐
2013; [200
๐ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
๐ English
โ 62 KB
โฆ LIBER โฆ
Invisible Cities
โ Scribed by Italo Calvino
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Year
- [2006], 19
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 54 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else. from*Invisible Cities*
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear.
Invisible Citieschanged the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose . . . The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island. Jeanette Winterson
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