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Fiction & Poetry, Modern & Contemporary Fiction

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino (author), William Weaver (translator)

Paperback Published on: 03/08/2023; Language: English, Italian (Original language of a translated text)

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Timeless Venice

Another book in my classics reading exercise, amazingly enough a lot of the books I’ve read whilst doing this are from Vintage Books. Not only are the edit... READ MORE

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A Magical Description of Somewhere

Marco Polo travelled the world, or did he? In this book he describes to Kublai Khan the fantastic cities he has visited; a city with sixty silver domes, on... READ MORE

Jane Mac

A postmodernist classic!

Reviewing this novel is very difficult. This is the second of Calvino's books that I have read, and while I did prefer If On A Winter's Night A Traveller (... READ MORE

Sam E

Synopsis

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.'

Publisher information

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9780099429838
Number of pages: 160
Dimensions: 197 x 127 x 11 mm
Weight: 126g
Languages: English, Italian (Original language of a translated text)

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Poetic Philosophy

Sorry, not my cup of tea. It is a very poetical meditation on the effects of cities / environments on social relationships presented as a series of anecdot... READ MORE

Joe Franks

Recommended!

Having had this on a reading list for university, I approached it with the usual suspicion and reluctance, but then when I actually bought and read it i fo... READ MORE

Aissa

Delightful.

This is less a novel than a series of vignettes, linked in the theme of imagined cities. And how wonderfully imagined they are! Whimsical, yes, but far too... READ MORE

Andrew Hammond

Invisible Cities

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