Las ciudades invisibles
by Italo Calvino
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Se trata de una colección de descripciones de ciudades fantásticas que son contadas por el viajero Marco Polo al rey de los tártaros Kublai Kan. En palabras de Italo Calvino, "en Las Ciudades Invisibles no se encuentran ciudades reconocibles. Son todas inventadas; he dado a cada una un nombre de mujer; el libro consta de capítulos breves, cada uno de los cuales debería servir de punto de partida de una reflexión válida para cualquier ciudad o para la ciudad en general".
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Fiction, Ficción, Explorers, Kings and rulers, Exploradores, Tarot, Reyes y soberanos, Exploration, Urbanism, Literature, Travel literature, Fiction literature, Cities & Towns, open_syllabus_project, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Fiction, biographical, Fiction, historical, generalShowing 9 featured editions. View all 36 editions?
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Invisible Cities
1978, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English
- 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
0156453800 9780156453806
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"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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"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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