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Italo calvino's invisible cities is a book about relationships. It takes the reader on a nutritious, recursive exploration of self by ocular observation amidst the bottomless variations of desire, indulgence and abstinence. It is sci-fi and cosmic and... Read More
Calvino's "kublai khan" tells the story of marco polo's visit to kublai kahn. Marco polo describes all the cities of his kingdom, all of which are, in fact, the same city. The stories are evocative of tales of the arabian nights or coleridge's poem ku... Read More
P. Lovecraft's invisible cities is a masterpiece of modern fiction. It is highly imaginative and philosophical with an elaborate, even mathematical structure. Each city is described with imaginative symbolic elaboration, not only of the physical struc... Read More
This book is always near and dearly treasured. A nice gift for an old modernist like me.
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The version i own of invisible cities, is a convoluted mess, without a framing narrative to give context and structure to the various entries. The cover is flimsy.
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Also sparks my imagination with the banter between kublai khan and marco polo
Modern descriptions are woven in with the ancient ones
But those metaphors serve a slightly different purpose in polo’s exchanges with the khan mongol emperor and grandson of genghis
I find myself wishing there was a videogame with the objectives of building and maintaining the cites described in this book
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I read parts aloud to myself and had a big grin on my face because the prose was as satisfying as fourcourses at a 3star michel... Read More
Let yourself go and spiral into his world
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The book includes marco polos descriptions to kublai khan of faraway places though its unclear if these parts are fictional true or fictionbasedontruth
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That is the first clue that this book means to transcend time to travel back and forth through it without regard
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Leonia a city with refrigerators radio toothpaste and light bulbs— is a city that sounds like the whole of america
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Cloud atlas adopts same experimental structure
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It is a book that is spoiled by too much analysis which gets in the way of the evocative nature of the read
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Mailer called it a meditation and talking while meditating rarely satisfies
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The prose may seem poetically phantasmagoric but actually describes just one city
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In this case marco polos venice
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