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Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino, William Weaver 1923, William Weaver • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers • ISBN 9781299903630

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Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino, William Weaver 1923, William Weaver • Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers • ISBN-13 9781299903630

ISBN-10 1299903630 • 2013 • Later Edition

Canonical book record

ISBN 9781299903630 • Completeness 71

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Description

Invisible Cities is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It is a series of conversations between the explorer Marco Polo and the emperor Kublai Khan. The book is structured as a series of short prose poems describing 55 cities, all of which are fantastical and allegorical, exploring themes of imagination, language, and the nature of human experience.

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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers
PaperbackLater Edition2013
Pages: 165Language: EnglishPaper finish: Matte

Catalog notes

Contributor: Italo CalvinoContributor: William Weaver 1923Contributor: William Weaver

Cultural context

Category: AllegoryCategory: Cities & TownsCategory: Cultural CommentaryCategory: ExploradoresCategory: ExplorationCategory: ExplorersCategory: FicciónCategory: Fiction, BiographicalInfluenced by: Jorge Luis BorgesInfluenced by: Franz KafkaInfluenced by: Marcel ProustInfluenced by: Vladimir NabokovInfluenced by: James JoyceInfluenced by: Luigi PirandelloInfluenced by: Dante AlighieriInfluenced by: Giovanni BoccaccioInfluenced: Haruki MurakamiInfluenced: David MitchellInfluenced: Salman RushdieInfluenced: Jonathan Safran FoerInfluenced: Neil GaimanInfluenced: China Miu00e9villeInfluenced: Roberto Bolau00f1oInfluenced: Mark Z. DanielewskiCornerstone of: Postmodern Literature

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