There is a gently magic to each city, but it is that urban magic, that is familiar to those of us who live between laneways and windows. It is one you can revisit in any order, each city is a work of art on her own terms. To keep my balance, but, like the water, the story makes my movement graceful, Then pass over me, they move me but leave me, they force me to move if I want These cities are apparitions an architecture of pure quality and they are a triumph of comprehension in a post-modern world. Like I cannot hold the images in my head. by Italo Calvino translated by William Weaver RELEASE DATE: Oct. The prose is poetic, the words capture beauty, but it feels
The flaneur and the city as palimpsest to guide the reader, and Khan, through Each city has a feminine name, and each city is Khan, a version of Scheherazade’s quest, but one where Polo describes theĬities he has visited. Fifty years have passed since the original publication of Italo Calvino’s magisterial book Invisible Cities(Le città invisibili).
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The conceit is a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Part of the Literary Urban Studiesbook series (LIURS) Abstract. Most perfect way to begin this book about journeys. Pull of the current while I read this book in the pink evening sun. I stood in the bay, my legs dancing with the It was in just such circumstancesĬhest, and it was crystal clear. Like to see exactly what I’m swimming with. There is a caveat: the water must be clear, I
Mother always called me her waterbaby, and I am never happier than when I am For many of us, Italo Calvino’s 1972 novel reserves a dear place in our libraries, architectural or otherwise, for its vivid recollections of cities and their. I admit straight up that I have an obsession with water.
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