Invisible Cities
Douban
ISBN: 9780099429838
author:
Italo Calvino
translator:
William Weaver
publishing house: VINTAGE (RAND)
publication date: 2002
-3
binding: Paperback
price: GBP 7.99
number of pages: 160
Italo Calvino translator: William Weaver
overview
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 marvelous invention like "Invisible Cities", perfectly irrelevant'.
