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Invisible Cities

(Vintage Classics)

By Italo Calvino

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| Paperback | 9780099429838

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'The most beautiful of his books throws up ideas, allusions, and breathtaking imaginative insights on almost every page. Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited...Although he makes Marco Polo summon up many cities for the KhanContinue

'The most beautiful of his books throws up ideas, allusions, and breathtaking imaginative insights on almost every page. Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited...Although he makes Marco Polo summon up many cities for the Khan's imagination to feed on, Calvino is describing only one city in this book. Venice, that decaying heap of incomparable splendour, still stands as substantial evidence of man's ability to create something perfect out of chaos'

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    Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino, Brace and Jovanovich, 1974, cover by Arnold Skolnick Invisible Cities is a conversation between emperor and wanderer. Venetian explorer Marco Polo describes 55 cities he has visited during his travels across the Mo ... (read full critics)

    ft published on Mon, 14 Mar 2011

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  • A collection of beautiful, poetic descriptions of impossible cities. Sometimes humorous, sometimes saddening, always inventive.

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