Invisible Cities - Couverture souple

Italo Calvino

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0151452903 ISBN 13 : 9780151452903

Editeur : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974

Synopsis

Titre : Invisible Cities Éditeur : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Date d'édition : 1974 Reliure : Hardcover Etat du livre : Good Edition : 1st Synopsis : Imaginary conversations between Marco Polo and his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, conjure up cities of magical times. â Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevantâ (Gore Vidal). Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

"so important for thinking about the rich layers of life around us, our frailties, how we question and how we find meaning." (Red)

"Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose... The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island" (Jeanette Winterson)

"Whole chapters of unforced poetic prose in which insight and fantasy are perfectly matched-an exquisite world" (Observer)

"'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)

"The most beautiful of his books throws up ideas, allusions, and breathtaking imaginative insights on almost every page. 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. Venice, that decaying heap of incomparable splendour, still stands as substantial evidence of man's ability to create something perfect out of chaos" (Paul Bailey Times Literary Supplement)

Présentation de l'éditeur

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” — from Invisible Cities In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo — Mongol emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts his host with stories of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. As Marco Polo unspools his tales, the emperor detects these fantastic places are more than they appear. “ Invisible Cities changed the way we read and what is possible in the balance between poetry and prose . . . The book I would choose as pillow and plate, alone on a desert island.” — Jeanette Winterson

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
• Date d'édition: 1974
• ISBN 10: 0151452903
• ISBN 13: 9780151452903
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible