Invisible Cities
Autor Italo Calvinoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mai 1978
“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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780156453806
ISBN-10: 0156453800
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States
ISBN-10: 0156453800
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:First Edition
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States
Notă biografică
ITALO CALVINO (1923-1985) attained worldwide renown as one of the twentieth century's greatest storytellers. Born in Cuba, he was raised in San Remo, Italy, and later lived in Turin, Paris, Rome, and elsewhere. Among his many works are Invisible Cities, If on a winter's night a traveler, The Baron in the Trees, and other novels, as well as numerous collections of fiction, folktales, criticism, and essays. His works have been translated into dozens of languages.
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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.'