Le citta invisibili

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You can take the stories as a parable on the forthcoming decline of the Kublai Khan’s empire or you can take them as short, beautifully poetic descriptions of imagined places or as something in between, perhaps a series of pleasing portraits which combine to form an idealised structure of cities or even an empire. Città reali scomposte e trasformate in chiave onirica, e città diaboliche e surreali che diventano archetipi moderni di un testo narrativo altamente poetico. This strict adherence to a mathematical pattern is characteristic of the Oulipo literary group to which Calvino belonged.

Sandra Barrera, "'Invisible Cities' is first release for The Industry’s new record label", Los Angeles Daily News, October 24, 2014. The matrix of eleven column themes and fifty-five subchapters (ten rows in chapters 1 and 9, five in all others) shows some interesting properties. The reader can therefore play with the book's structure, and choose to follow one group or another, rather than reading the book in chronological chapters. Each city is, of course, different and there is no connection between the different cities – no description of how they might relate to another city, no description of the journey between them.By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file.

The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally. Invisible Cities is an example of Calvino's use of combinatory literature, and shows influences of semiotics and structuralism. A. Dance Project are presenting 'Invisible Cities' on a unique platform — Union Station train terminal — and beaming it through headphones.Each one stands on its own, either as a separate city or, more likely, a separate imagined city for, of course, these cities do not correspond to real cities that we know, though attempts have been made to relate them to a specific physical environment. Envoi autographe signé de l'auteur : "A Maurice Nadeau / hommage amical / de Italo Calvino / mai 74".