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Very interesting little glimpses of stories. The lack of cohesion moved this from a five-star to a four-star read for me, but I'm intrigued enough, and the book is short enough, that I think I'll read it again immediately. I'm looking forward to discussing this with on of my GR groups, and maybe coming to understand it a little more deeply than I'm able to just reading it myself. Calvino's writing is excellent - clever, evocative, concise. I loved the idea of cities with all these fantastical el
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Calvino and Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. Cities. Cities dancing around my head.
Cities and memory
"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls." (pg 11)
-Diomira
-Isidora
-Zaira
-Zora
-Maurilia
Cities and desire
"The city appears to you as a who ...more
Cities and memory
"The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls." (pg 11)
-Diomira
-Isidora
-Zaira
-Zora
-Maurilia
Cities and desire
"The city appears to you as a who ...more
Invisible Cities was a different kind of novel. Instead of telling a story, the author tells many descriptions of imaginary cities. He presents it as Marco Polo describing cities from his travel's to Kublai Khan. Each city has the feel of a dream city with fantastical and/or philosophical elements. The reader is left wondering weather each city exists, if Marco Polo is making them all up, or if they are simply different ways of describing the same city or all cities. The writing is beautiful and
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This book is about a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublia Khan, where Marco is describing for Kublia the cities that he has visited. Kublia Khan wants to find out from Marco Polo the condition of his Empire. Neither speaks the other's language. Thus, the whole book is a conversation of the imagination. Interesting.
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