An edition of Le città invisibili (1972)

Invisible cities.

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An edition of Le città invisibili (1972)

Invisible cities.

[1st ed.]
  • 4.1 (24 ratings) ·
  • 88 Want to read
  • 7 Currently reading
  • 28 Have read

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, 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." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating fine details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.

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English
Pages
165

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Cover of: Las ciudades invisibles
Las ciudades invisibles
2008, Crisálida Crasis
Print book in Spanish
Cover of: Le città invisibili
Le città invisibili
1993, Mondadori
in Italian
Cover of: Kan bu jian di cheng shi
Kan bu jian di cheng shi
1993, Shi bao wen hua
in Chinese - Chu ban.
Cover of: Les Villes invisibles
Les Villes invisibles
1984, Éditions du Seuil
in French
Cover of: Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities
1978, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
Cover of: Invisible cities
Invisible cities
1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English
Cover of: Invisible cities
Invisible cities
1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - (1st ed.).
Cover of: Invisible cities.
Invisible cities.
1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English - [1st ed.]
Cover of: Invisible cities
Invisible cities
1972, Harvest
in English

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Edition Notes

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Translation of Le città invisibili.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853/.9/14
Library of Congress
PZ3.C13956 In, PQ4809.A45 In

The Physical Object

Pagination
165 p.
Number of pages
165

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5048157M
ISBN 10
0151452903
LCCN
74008836
Library Thing
15614
Goodreads
42205

First Sentence

"Leaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower."

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