5/12/2023 0 Comments Marco polo invisible cities![]() ![]() ![]() You can say Invisible Cities is about cities - unfamiliar, faraway, magnificent - yet in a way, it is about everything else. It slips through grasping fingers and retreats from ostentatious words one can barely graze at its essence in attempting to capture it. Perhaps the best way to approach Invisible Cities is to embrace its subjectivity - the looseness, the elusiveness of it. At the same time, I felt like I would never really be ready to read it. When I began reading Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, it felt as though I had known it all my life. ![]() “I speak and speak,” Marco Polo says, “but the listener retains only the words he is expecting… It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.” ![]()
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