"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo …
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"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating fine details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.
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Las ciudades invisibles
Paperback, 183 pages
Spanish language
Published 1998 by Siruela.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-7844-415-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 40913828
Invisible Cities
Hardcover, 164 pages
English language
Published by Arion Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-910457-40-8Copied ISBN!
Invisible Cities
Paperback, 165 pages
Published 1997 by Mandarin.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-7493-9764-7Copied ISBN!
Les Villes invisibles
Paperback, 188 pages
French language
Published by Seuil.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-02-001610-0Copied ISBN!
Las ciudades invisibles
Hardcover
Spanish language
Published by Minotauro.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-450-7223-3Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 79676929
Kan bu jian di cheng shi
201 pages
Chinese language
Published 1993 by Shi bao wen hua.
- ISBN:
- 978-957-13-0847-0Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 29970235
Le città invisibili
170 pages
Italian language
Published 1972 by Einaudi.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-06-47639-7Copied ISBN!
Las ciudades invisibles
rústica, 182 pages
Spanish language
Published 2004 by Ediciones Siruela.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-7844-415-1Copied ISBN!
As Cidades Invisibles
Paperback, 160 pages
Portuguese language
- ISBN:
- 978-84-8302-315-0Copied ISBN!
Italo Calvino
audio cd, 13 pages
English language
Published by Multilingual Books.
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- 978-1-58214-149-7Copied ISBN!
Italo Calvino
audio cassette, 13 pages
English language
Published by Multilingual Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-58214-124-4Copied ISBN!
Las ciudades invisibles
Spanish language
Published 1995 by Siruela.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-7844-212-6Copied ISBN!
Las ciudades invisibles
174 pages
Spanish language
Published 1991 by Minotauro.
- ISBN:
- 978-968-446-145-1Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 34971181
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