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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo--Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. The mood is sunset. Prospero is holding up for the last time his magic wand: Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his Empire, of his city, of himself.
 
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Promised lands, visited in thought - beauty, truth and poetry

Date of Review:  Sep 26, 2002
The Bottom Line: Invisible Cities is a masterpiece of imaginative literature. Transcending the traditional boundaries of the novel, it glimmers with beauty and truth at every turn.
Review: Like many concepts which are commonly presumed to be unitary and simple, the idea of the 'city' is, in fact, nothing of the sort, and so it is unsurprising that its treatment in literature should frequently be characterised by complex layers of...
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Unconventional structure, which may not...
 

InvisibleCities: If On a Winter's Night You're Looking for Something to Read...

Date of Review:  Dec 21, 2001
The Bottom Line: Almost impossible to describe, Calvino's short 'travelogue' is like nothing else you've read. Highly recommended.
Review: I first read this book a couple of years before I saw Venice for the first time, and after the trip I had an entirely new experience with Invisible Cities, which is both about and not about Venice all at once. Ostensibly, Invisible Cities is a set...
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INVISIBLE CITIES- VISIBLE BEAUTY

Date of Review:  Oct 27, 2003
The Bottom Line: Beautiful, a must read.
Review: Invisible cities was perhaps the most beautifully written book I have ever read. Tying with Woolf in the theme of connection and with Shakespeare in the theme that, ultimately, words do not matter, Calvino brings you an illustrious world filled not...
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Authors Italo Calvino
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  Vidal, Gore, New York Review of Books: "Of all tasks, describing the content of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like INVISIBLE CITIES, perfectly irrelevant."

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  Format: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books (May 01, 1978)
Measurements: 8.25"(h) x 5.5"(w) x 0.5"(d), 0.4 lbs.
ISBN: 9780156453806

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  Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expedition, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his.
 
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In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo - Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales 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. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.
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