Italo Calvino is a genius of a writer. I absolutely adore his writing. Even midway through the book, all I could think was wow, wow, I love this, wow. It's in the feel of the writing, it's in the ambiance he creates with his words. There is a sense of longing and mystery and just the feel of a perso...
The Great Khan contemplates an empire covered with cities that weigh upon the earth and upon mankind, crammed with wealth and traffic, overladen with ornaments and offices, complicated with mechanisms and hierarchies, swollen, tense, ponderous. "The empire is being crushed by its own weight," Kublai...
Calvino's Invisible Cities is more a chronicle of linked prose poetry than it is a novel. Marco Polo, the Scheherazadean narrator, tells Kublai Khan about the fifty-five (is it really only that many?) of impossibly imaginative cities which he has encountered along his travels. Whether cities of the ...
A deeply thought-provoking book, although at times I find it a little uneven. Some chapters/cities are remarkably poignant and stick with me long after reading them, while others feel like pseudo-philosophy and ruminating for the sake of rumination. A few of them seem a bit repetitive, like Calvino ...
I know I"m supposed to love this - but it's part of my limitation I guess that this type of thing leaves me empty. Apart from a few nice sentences, it simply has no meaning for me. Maybe someday...
This collection of translated stories makes me feel like I'm reading dreams. It's haunting at times, beautiful at others, and an all-around brilliant book.
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