Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities (1972) is a book teeming with paradoxes: it is prose, but feels like poetry; it is very erudite, you feel the author has swallowed a whole library, and you can ...

As for the Calvino book from which this show came, "Invisible Cities" transcribes an imaginary Marco Polo as he describes the places he's seen to an equally imaginary Kublai Khan.

Eric Weiner's latest book is Man Seeks God: My Flirtations with the Divine. Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities might be labeled travelogue. It was, in fact, the traveler in me that first fell under ...

The novel Invisible Cities by Italian write Italo Calvino narrates a fictional encounter between Mongol emperor Kublai Khan and a certain young Venetian explorer.Nearing the end of his life, the aging ...

Italo Calvino wrote stories, plays, poetry, and fables. His collection of short stories, Invisible Cities, is an ode to Venice, written in 55 ways, all named after women.

Italo Calvino, Author Vintage Books USA $13 (144p) ISBN 978-0-679-74237-1 This collection of five elegant essays by the Italian fiction writer offers an affecting self-portrait. (Nov.) ...

Also, equally playful and profound, Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities is 50 years old this year. ... Book List – Sunday 16 October and Thursday 20 October. The Romantic by William Boyd ...