Italy

Invisible Cities

by Italo Calvino

Nature & Landscape 1972

Summary

Marco Polo describes 55 fantastical cities to the aging Kublai Khan, each city a meditation on memory, desire, death, or time. Calvino's most celebrated work is a philosophical prose poem disguised as a travel book.

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Italo Calvino

Italian novelist and journalist (1923–1985) known for his playful, experimental, and visually imaginative prose. He moved from neorealism to fable to postmodern metafiction over the course of a career that made him one of the 20th century's most distinctive voices.

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1972
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Italo Calvino