'A subtle and beautiful meditation' Sunday Times
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
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
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
*Times Literary Supplement*
So important for thinking about the rich layers of life around us,
our frailties, how we question and how we find meaning.
*Red*
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