Invisible Cities (Picador Books)

by Italo Calvino

W. Weaver (Translator)

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.'

• ISBN10: 0436082209
• ISBN13: 9780436082207
• Publish Date: 6 April 1987 (first published 8 June 1979)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 14 March 1996
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Imprint: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 170
• Language: English

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Still my least favorite Calvino, strange as that may seem when many people rank it his best. Let’s take it for granted that I’m weird and they’re right. It suffers more this time from Kalpa Imperial, which has much the same vision but with people included. I look forward to when I return to it one day and find it’s finally my book.