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. The most beautiful of his books throws up ideas, allusions, and breathtaking imaginative insights on almost every page. '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 * Whole chapters of unforced poetic prose in which insight and fantasy are perfectly matched-an exquisite world * Observer * The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island
Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose.
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