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Nouvelles d'un monde rêvé. Relations de voyage d'un Marco Polo visionnaire auprès d'un grand Khan mélancolique. Chaque cité porte le nom d'une femme.
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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, generalEdition | Availability |
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Invisible Cities
2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
in English
054413320X 9780544133204
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Las ciudades invisibles
2004, Ediciones Siruela
Rústica
in Spanish
- 10ª Edición, septiembre de 2004.
8478444157 9788478444151
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Italo Calvino: "Le citta' invisibili" (Il Narratore Italian Literature on Tape)
January 1, 1998, Multilingual Books
Audio CD
in English
- 1 edition
1582141495 9781582141497
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Italo Calvino: "Le citta' invisibili" (Il Narratore Italian Literature on Tape)
January 1, 1998, Multilingual Books
Audio cassette
in English
- 1 edition
158214124X 9781582141244
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Invisible Cities
1978, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
in English
- 1st Harvest/HBJ ed.
0156453800 9780156453806
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As Cidades Invisibles
Publisher unknown
Paperback
in Portuguese
- Edicion Literaria
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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."
Work Description
"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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