May 2019 Bookclub read Once upon a time, there was a guy called Macro Polo, and he invented a very cool pool game. Yeah, I know. But he did talk to Kublai Khan about cities. Or was it one city? Or women? Calvino’s book isn’t s...
“For those who pass it without entering, the city is one thing; it is another for those who are trapped by it and never leave. There is the city where you arrive for the first time; and there is another city which you leave never to return. Each deserves a different name; perhaps I have already spok...
An exercise in parody You are about to read அரவிந்தாக்க்ஷன் review of calvino’s work. Ask your people not to call you for any reason whatsoever for next few minutes.You are reading this since Calvino’s work interest you. You have read all his other works except this. You have read about it Somew...
Italo Calvino is always worth reading in my opinion and so is Invisible Cities. The minimalistic story which forms the framework consists of dialogues between Marco Polo and the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan during which Marco Polo describes the various cities within the Khan’s kingdom. But by doing...
3.5 / 5 A typical Calvino book, characterized by his excellent descriptive style and unique eye for all those cultural and behavioral details that make his writing so unique. Most of the stories are very interesting and varied. There are some that were not such big hits with me but I feel that they ...
You are about to read Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveller that you bought from your favorite book store. As you turn to the first chapter, you realize you are reading you. You begin to read a description of you and what you would do in the book. You realize you are going through the b...
The book includes Marco Polo's descriptions to Kublai Khan of faraway places (though it's unclear if these parts are fictional, true, or fiction-based-on-truth). It's poetic, heart-warming, and soul moving. There is more to be felt in these short, simple descriptions of settings than many authors co...
Trochę nie wiem na co najpierw skierować czytelniczą uwagę i od czego zacząć swoje zachęty. Jest świetny język. Jest baśniowa historia od której słuchania bezwiednie otwierają się usta: Wicehrabia stracił na wojnie połowę ciała. Udało mu się przeżyć i wrócić żywym do domu. Szybko jednak okazał...
Długo zabierałem się do napisania opinii o „Niewidzialnych miastach”. Kiedy się zabierałem za pisanie, po wystukaniu kilku linijek tekstu na klawiaturze, kasowałem wszystko. Odkładałem, bo nie wiedziałem czy rzeczywiście pisze o tej książce. Ponownie przeglądałem opisy niewidzialnych miast, i w końc...
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