Invisible Cities By Calvino - a beautiful read
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- A book of imagination that has wonderful descriptions of cities (some based on real ones, some made up).They are told to you from Marco Polo's perspective as he tells his tales to emperor Kublai Khan. The book consists mainly of brief prose poems describing 55 cities framed by conversations between the two men. This is in my top 3 books of all time! I adore it!
God I love that book! Have read it aloud so many times. There is one city where he describes all the grimness and yet at the same time there is this invisible thread of joy running through it, so that the unhappy city contains a happy city it is totally unaware of. Thanks so much!
I just got interested in the writings of Calvino. Thanks for reading! I'm legally blind and I need someone to read for me. You got me even more interested in his stuff. :)
His first name in Italian is pronounced with the stress on the first syllable (EEE-tah-loh). Most Italian words are stressed on the second-to-last syllable in Italian, but there are occasional exceptions (like the composer Ennio Morricone, also stressed on the first syllable (EH-nee-oh). I fell completely in love with Calvino in college, read everything, learned Italian and eventually wrote my dissertation on him-while I like almost everything he wrote, this is his greatest book.
If you haven't read "The Kite Runner" you have to. It just flows so well. And while it is a fictional story, it feels so real. It really is a masterpiece and by far my favorite book of all time.
love this book, thanks
Very few people are able to appreciate such books these days. So it's great you like this one, there are so very very many more of the same quality and poetry. I'd be curious to know what you think of Jorge Luis Borges or Gabriel Garcia Marquez (pick a few of their short stories), or of the book "Palomar", by the same Italo Calvino. My personal favorite in this style is a very big novel by Günter Grass (Germany) called "The Tin Drum". The common style is sometimes called "Magical Realism", I like that.
Lovely comments, thank you! It's a marvelous book, isn't it? I love the city that stands on flamingo-leg stilts in the sky
molto bella molto bella
stories made from dreams are always beautifull
They're a reflection to our inner selves, our higher selves
Messages from sages past, who wont show themselves in our current's eyes
When you start talking you know 90percent of the guys don't care about no books
@Tand0oriCh1cken i see what youre saying but over all not bed. i still dont think anything will ever beat superstylin for me i love that song!
I studied Italian linguistics and literature at university, so we had to read all the novels of Italo Calvino. I'm really fond of his novels (Il barone rampante, il sentiero dei nidi di ragno, il visconte dimezzato, etc...) Unfortunately I didn't like Le città invisibili (Invisible cities) at all. I found it to be too abstract and unorganized. I had to read every page twice, because I never knew what I had read...
@skulljoint very nicely put
@Dizz21e lol yea but not very well apparently- K
Gosh your beautiful
I have yet to see a video of a decent looking girl who barely even has anything insightful to say that DOESN'T have her appearance commented on
I've seen very decent looking males do reviews and everybody posts intellectual comments
here it's "you're so cute"
who taught women to read! and why wasn't informed?
Transplendent...
Nice👍
awesome!
This book is on my reading list for my Christmas holiday after I finish this semester of university...can't wait to read it!!!
I've come to find Calvino late and by chance. Invisible Cities is an incredibly mind-opening book, and the premise-a series of conversations between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan-forms a wonderful scaffold for these prose poems. The "Thin Cities" spider city piece you share here is among my favorites.
@vodoojeff i totally agree. its a wonderful book for sure! ill have to check out those other two
If you like Invisible Cities, you might like Clark Ashton Smith...
"My dreams are like a caravan that departed long ago, with tumult of intrepid banners and spears, and the clamour of bugles and brave, adventurous songs, to seek the horizons of perilous, unknown, barbaric lands and kingdoms immense and vaguely rumoured, with cities beautiful and opulent as the cities of Paradise, and deep, Edenic vales of palm and cinnamon and myrrh, lying beneath skies of primeval azure silence..."
love the hanging city....
@On1Ei8htSe7en sweeeet thats the BEST kind of nerd
You stress the first syllable of "Italo", that would be correct :p... I need to read more books in my mother tongue, thanks for the heads up.
@wonderpope wonderful, thanks for that. thanks for watching
@Ezra7777 ill have to check that out for sure!
@sjg2 always a good plan :) god im such a nerd
I've never seen someone get really into a book like you.
I think i'll give it a try
@vodoojeff got it! thanks
@FreshSwiss why thank you
Why Mrs. Katherine your are gorgeous
@spysean done and done.
Kat, you are very cute :)
Kiitos