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Romane

Invisible Cities

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Italo Calvino's beloved, intricately crafted philosophical novel about an Emperor's travels—a brilliant journey across far-off places and distant memory.

"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." 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.

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ISBN9780156453806
VerlagHarperCollins
Erscheinungsdatum03.05.78
Seitenzahl176

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  • 5,0

    When I started reading this little book I wasn't too impressed. But the more city descriptions I perused and the more I learned about Marco Polo's and Kublai Khan's conversation, the better I liked it. I believe this is one of these rare works which disclose even more and new sides when you read them again. I can imagine art and literature teachers going crazy over this book and making their students illustrate the cities and draw connections between them. There is so much room for interpretation!

    23. Sept. 2022

  • 4,0

    Beautiful ideas, very inspirational.

    21. Juli 2025

  • 4,0

    give a push to your imagination...

    7. Dez. 2025

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