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Invisible Cities
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Fifty-five fictional cities, each described in beautiful detail – each with a woman’s name… In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ‘Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.’This is a captivating meditation on culture, language, time, memory and the nature of human experience.’Invisible Cities changed 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’Touches inexhaustibly on the essence of the human urge to create cities, be in cities, speak of cities’ Guardian’A subtle and beautiful meditation’ Sunday Times
Additional information
| Weight | 0.117 kg |
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| Dimensions | 0.9 × 12.7 × 19.6 cm |
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| Pages | 160 |
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| Year Published | 1997-10-2 |
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| Publication City/Country | London, United Kingdom |
| ISBN 10 | 0099429837 |
| About The Author | Italo Calvino (Author) Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003. William Weaver (Translator) William Weaver has translated Umberto Eco, Italo Svevo, Primo Levi, Italo Calvino and Roberto Calasso, among others. He is a professor at Bard College. |
Invisible Cities changed 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 |
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| Other text | Whole chapters of unforced poetic prose in which insight and fantasy are perfectly matched-an exquisite world |
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