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Invisible Cities
(Jefferson Plaza)

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In 'Invisible Cities', Italo Calvino deals with the major crises of contemporary cities. Creating an imaginary world, the author seeks to delineate man's creative genius and to emphasise the complex challenges posed by our concept of modern cities.
The author devises an allegorical world set in the reign of the imperator Tartaro Kublai Khan, who establishes a relationship with Marco Polo, the great Venetian merchant. Written in the tradition of travel literature, this book can be compared to classics such as Virgil or Homer, who also told their stories through the great heroes of Greek myths.

In fact, Calvino portrays Marco Polo as a man endowed with an extraordinary talent for telling the spellbinding adventures he has experienced in the course of his journeys in the Far East. The imperator is fascinated with these awesome worlds and a very special relationship develops between the two of them. All descriptions of the cities begin with a dialogue, written in italics, between Marco Polo and the imperator. These dialogues are reminiscent of 'Thousand nights and one night'.

The book features 155 cities, all of which are bear female names and not to be found in an atlas. The cities symbolically represent themes such as love, death and our relationship with technology. At times, they also reflect our unattainable anxieties or desires.

This book is a thoroughly effortless and enjoyable read, even though it embarks upon a journey through complex, fragmented worlds and abounds with symbolism.

Surely our ever-accelerating rhythm of life obliges us to sacrifice many pleasures, not least of all reading. Well, why should one read this particular book?

Calvino presents us with a must-read masterpiece featuring the most essential contradictions of our lives. Also, he observes the general lack of our capacities of imagination and self-reflection, which keeps us from realising what has become of our cities.
A hilarious and captivating book that becomes more relevant by the day.



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