Invisible Cities (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Antal sidor
160
Utgivningsdatum
1997-10-01
Upplaga
New e.
Förlag
Vintage Classics
Översättare
William Weaver
Originalspråk
Italian
Medarbetare
Weaver, William (red.)
Dimensioner
210 x 130 x 15 mm
Vikt
130 g
SAB
He
ISBN
9780099429838

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Invisible Cities (häftad)

Invisible Cities

av Italo Calvino
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Häftad Engelska, 1997-10-01
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In Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.'
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so important for thinking about the rich layers of life around us, our frailties, how we question and how we find meaning. * Red * Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose... The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island -- Jeanette Winterson Whole chapters of unforced poetic prose in which insight and fantasy are perfectly matched-an exquisite world * Observer * 'Invisible Cities is perhaps his most beautiful work-the artist seems to have made peace with the tension between man's ideas of the many and the one * New York Review of Books * The most beautiful of his books throws up ideas, allusions, and breathtaking imaginative insights on almost every page. Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited-Although he makes Marco Polo summon up many cities for the Khan's imagination to feed on, Calvino is describing only one city in this book. Venice, that decaying heap of incomparable splendour, still stands as substantial evidence of man's ability to create something perfect out of chaos -- Paul Bailey * Times Literary Supplement *

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Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923. He grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985