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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. started reading today! found the book in a sale at Geants-Ibn Batuta Mall...[nearly half priced edition:] ;)හඹා ගිය පොතක්! (  )DawsonP | Jun 29, 2009 |    See Imagined Cities at From Word to Word jeremylukehill | Jun 23, 2009 | I read Chapter 1 of this book. And then I had to backtrack. I decided to read all bookends of every chapter instead. These contain imaginary conversations between Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. This book is very well written. The several variations on the theme of the city are perfect exercises for a powerful writer. It should have been marketed as poetry and not fiction, as each snippet can be considered a prose poem. I decided to forgo reading the rest of it. There's no doubt that Italo Calvino writes beautifully. But in this case, beauty is its own weakness. You will be fed up by the painful beauty of the writing. (  )Rise | Jun 5, 2009 | Beautifully confusing. Every time I would read this book I would just fall asleep. It honestly was that tiring for my mind to keep up with the imagery. Eventually I started to walk while I read. While I couldn't walk in a straight line to save my life - I started to see the pictures and understand the meanings of the extremely well-detailed places. I even bought another copy so I could mark notes in the margins of one, but still be able to go back and read with an unadulterated mind the next time. (  )Playr4JC | May 5, 2009 | Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino was a book that confused me from beginning to end, and yet I am glad I read it. Calvino was trying to do something creatively strange, and I think I missed it, but the strangeness was a bit rewarding in the end: I sense a deep purpose and philosophical meaning behind it all. More detailed, but probably just as incoherent, thoughts on my blog rebeccareid | May 2, 2009 | 0.055 seconds to build listing
Amazon.com (ISBN 0156453800, Paperback)"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 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.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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