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 ...

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.

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 ...

TEHRAN-Italo Calvino’s book about his trip to Iran five decades ago has been released in ... He admired the charms of Persia's civilization after visiting particular cities like ... Other notable ...

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 ...

Writing about his imaginary travelogue “Invisible Cities,” Italo Calvino expounded on his attraction to making up “continents of the ‘elsewhere,’ now that there is no longer any ...