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.

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 ...

OPINION. BY KIM TANZER. Some years ago, accomplished author, Italo Calvino, published a short book titled Invisible Cities.It described, in exquisite detail, dozens of strange, very particular cities.

Italo Calvino (trans. William Weaver), Invisible Cities (first published 1972; Vintage Classics, 1997) Italo Calvino (trans. Patrick Creagh), The Uses of Literature (first published 1980; Houghton ...

It is the fascination that Italo Calvino's unclassifiable, elusive literary works exert over artists in other media. Calvino's Invisible Cities contains unseen cities of the imagination that have ...

The author was Italo Calvino, ... Or it was a book called “Invisible Cities,” in which the Venetian merchant Marco Polo described to Kublai Khan the far-away lands of his empire, ...