Invisible Cities
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"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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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!
Was ganz anderes 💭
Ich bin immer auf der Suche nach Büchern, die ganz neue Ideen haben. Und so etwas wie dieses Buch habe ich wirklich noch nicht gelesen. Marco Polo erzählt von verschiedenen imaginären Städten, die sehr kreativ gedacht und mit Tiefgang versehen sind. Jeder Bericht ist ziemlich kurz, sodass das Buch gut immer mal wieder in die Hand genommen werden kann. Außerdem muss man es auch nicht von vorne nach hinten lesen 😋 Allerdings hat mir doch eine Handling gefehlt…
Description
"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.
Book Information
Posts
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!
Was ganz anderes 💭
Ich bin immer auf der Suche nach Büchern, die ganz neue Ideen haben. Und so etwas wie dieses Buch habe ich wirklich noch nicht gelesen. Marco Polo erzählt von verschiedenen imaginären Städten, die sehr kreativ gedacht und mit Tiefgang versehen sind. Jeder Bericht ist ziemlich kurz, sodass das Buch gut immer mal wieder in die Hand genommen werden kann. Außerdem muss man es auch nicht von vorne nach hinten lesen 😋 Allerdings hat mir doch eine Handling gefehlt…