An edition of Le città invisibili (1972)

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An edition of Le città invisibili (1972)

Invisible Cities

1st Harvest/HBJ 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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Invisible Cities
2013, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
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Invisible cities
2010, Vintage Digital
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Las ciudades invisibles
2008, Crisálida Crasis
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Las ciudades invisibles
2004, Ediciones Siruela
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Las ciudades invisibles
Nov 10, 1999
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Invisible Cities
June 1999, Arion Press
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Italo Calvino: "Le citta' invisibili" (Il Narratore Italian Literature on Tape)
January 1, 1998, Multilingual Books
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Italo Calvino: "Le citta' invisibili" (Il Narratore Italian Literature on Tape)
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Las ciudades invisibles
1998, Siruela
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Las ciudades invisibles
August 1998, Minotauro
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Invisible Cities
1997, Vintage Classics
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Invisible Cities
1997, Mandarin
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Invisible Cities
1997, Vintage Classics
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Les Villes invisibles
June 2, 1996, Seuil
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Las ciudades invisibles
1995, Siruela
in Spanish - 3rd ed.
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Le città invisibili
1993, Mondadori
in Italian
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Le città invisibili
1993, Mondadori
in Italian
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Kan bu jian di cheng shi
1993, Shi bao wen hua
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Las ciudades invisibles
1991, Minotauro
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Les Ciutats Invisibles
1985, Editorial Empuries
in Catalan
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Les Villes invisibles
1984, Éditions du Seuil
in French
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Invisible cities
1979, Pan Books
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Invisible Cities
1978, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Le città invisibili
1977, Einaudi
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Le città invisibili
1977, Einaudi
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Invisible cities
1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Invisible cities
1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Invisible cities.
1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Invisible cities
1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Les Villes invisibles
May 1, 1974, Seuil
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Le città invisibili
1972, Einaudi
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Invisible cities
1972, Harvest
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Le Città invisibili.
1972, Einaudi
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Le città invisibili.
1972, Einaudi
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Le città invisibili.
1972, Einaudi
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As Cidades Invisibles
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Edition Notes

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

Published in
New York
Series
A Harvest/HBJ book

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
853/.9/14
Library of Congress
PQ4809.A45 C513 1978

The Physical Object

Pagination
165 p. ;
Number of pages
165

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4547791M
Internet Archive
invisiblecities00calv_965
ISBN 10
0156453800
LCCN
77016002
Library Thing
15614
Goodreads
9809

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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