Invisible Cities - Couverture souple

Calvino, Italo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0749397640 ISBN 13 : 9780749397647

Editeur : Minerva, 1997

Synopsis

Each time he returns from his travels, Marco Polo is invited by Kublai Khan to describe the cities he has visited. The conqueror and the explorer exchange visions: for Kublai Khan the world is constantly expanding; for Marco Polo - who has seen so much of it - it is an ever-diminishing place.

A propos du livre

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

Biographie de l'auteur

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923. He grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Minerva
• Date d'édition: 1997
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0749397640
• ISBN 13: 9780749397647
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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