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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 tell..more

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Sep 14, 2011Riku Sayuj Pablo

rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: foriegn-lit, favorites, translated, r-r-rs, extra-creative

Invisible Cities; Imagined Lives
Marco Polo was a dreamer. He had great ambitions - wanting to be a traveller, a writer and a favored courtier. He wanted to live in the lap of luxury in his lifetime and in the best illustrated pages of history later. But he could only be a dreamer and never much more. Was it good enough? He never travelled anywhere and spent his life dreaming away in his Venice and is remembered to this day as the greatest explorer and travel writer of all time. How did that co..more

Sep 14, 2016Violet wells rated it it was amazing

..A five star review..
I hate flying. The claustrophobia of it. So usually when I return to Italy after visiting London I catch the train to Paris and then the night train to Venice. That’s my little extravagance. I catch the night train to Venice and not Florence for one moment. The moment of walking out of the station of Santa Lucia and beholding the Grand Canal. I sit on the steps and let all the activity on the canal wash through me. I’m not sure why this moment means so much to me. It’s no..more

Dec 17, 2012Paul Bryant rated it liked it

Marco Polo : Now I shall tell you of the beautiful city of Nottingham where the buildings are made mostly of blue glass, onyx and sausagemeat. The men of the city trade in fur, spices and photographs of each other with their respective spouses. All the men have large phalluses, sometimes so large they must cut pieces out of the tops of their front doors before they can exit their houses in the morning. This is a city of dreamers and anthropophagi, of astronomers and chess players, all with the l..more

Apr 02, 2012Kalliope rated it it was amazing

Shelves: literary-classics, italy, international-lit

Heidi Whitman - Brain Terrain.

I have not read Marco Polos’s Journeys, but I could imagine what he has written. Had I read it, I also would have had to imagine what he had written. Same verbs, different tenses.
As I am sitting on a bench in front of a museum, waiting for a friend, a family of Italian tourists comes and sits next to me. They come from the land of Marco Polo, or maybe not, may be from the land of Italo Calvino since I do not know if they are Venetians. Italy was a projection of th..more

Jun 15, 2015Gaurav rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: favorites, love-to-read-again, postmodernism, italian, dream-like

It's easy to describe what 'Invisible Cities' is not rather than what it is as it's really very difficult to ascertain which category it can be put into; it neither has a clear plot nor characters are developed as they normally are, it can't be called a novel or collection of stories, can't be put in any one genre since it surpasses so many; but still something extraordinary, something which can't be described in words, which can only be felt.
The book has loose dialogues between emperor- Kublai..more

Oct 24, 2015Cecily rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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The photo is of new and old Shanghai, photographed by Greg Girard in 2000 (source), chronologically equidistant between my two visits there. It is, and maybe always has been, a city of contrasting, unequal, parts and pairs, like many of the Invisible Cities.
“Each man bears in his mind a city made only of differences.”
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I’ve been eavesdropping on the mysterious, hypnotic conversations between a famous explorer from antiquity and the powerful emperor of a distant land: Marco Polo and Kublai Kh..more

Jun 08, 2013Dolors rated it it was amazing

Recommends it for: Empty your mind to spot the pattern in the chaos.

Shelves: best-ever, read-in-2015

Theories.
One could easily declare that the protagonists of this book are the cities, which are different versions of the same city that doesn’t really exist, only maybe in the writer’s mind. Either Venice or Paris, Calvino’s cities are a trip through imagination to lives never had, doors never opened, people never met.
Someone else might appoint the reader as the real protagonist of Calvino’s book for he becomes the traveler who visits these cities mentally, which are nothing else than representa..more

Sep 17, 2016Michael Finocchiaro rated it it was amazing

Shelves: favorites, novels, fiction, read-in-en-and-fr, italian-20th-c

This is my favourite Calvino book and the one I always suggest to friends to ask me for an interesting easy read or a start into Calvino's universe. It is hard to write a long review here without giving away the entire story but suffice it to say that it is poetic prose at its best.
In a nutshell, Marco Polo describes to Kublai Khan the various cities he has been to before his visit to China between 1271 and 1275 CE. Each description is more fanciful and beautiful than the previous and there is..more

Aug 23, 2017Seemita rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: art, conversations, novella, fiction, favorites, cuba, me, italy, europe, for_legacy

You landed in my world on a calm, dewy evening
And struck was I with a song I was about to sing;
A song that lay hidden in the silhouettes of each letter
That protruded from the cover, all poised to embitter.
But waited I, patiently, under the light of the mundane day;
You see, Mr. Calvino, I had a knack of seeing your way.
Fusing the curious with the depth, and peppering them with some humor too;
All too often, you had served, a world that was both fictional and true.
So, on a fine evening, when all yo..more

Oct 05, 2010Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: fantasy, 1001-book, italian, short-stories, fiction

350. Le citta invisibili = Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore. The book explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by an explorer, Marco Polo. The book is framed as a conversation between the aging and busy emperor Kublai Khan, who constantly has merchants coming to describe the state of his expanding and vast empire,..more

Mar 25, 2015Alex rated it it was amazing

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I live in a city, and every day I ride the subway with people who live in different cities. Aggressively loud teenagers, exhausted laborers with grimy hands, sparkling skinny women in careful clothes, Michael Cera: I don't think they would recognize my city.
But we find our city, and our city finds us, right? The Flamethrowers' artist Reno moves to a New York full of artists madly creating. Patrick Bateman is fake, and he lives in a fake New York. The Street's Lutie lives in a cruel New York, and..more

Sep 04, 2011Paquita Maria Sanchez rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

This is the third book that I have attempted to write a response to this week, and failed. I think I am going through a very internal, sponge-like phase. To say that I haven't been going out much would be a ridiculous understatement. I hole up in my bed, finish a book, set it down and grab another almost instantly, comparing the smell of the old to that of the new, then dive straight in, surfacing only rarely for air. I haven't felt up to hammering down my feelings about these things that I have..more

May 15, 2019Leonard Gaya rated it really liked it · review of another edition

After travelling to the Far East for more than twenty years, Marco Polo sailed back to his hometown of Venice and, upon arriving, was taken prisoner by the invading army of Genoa. So finally he sat down, at the bottom of a cell. As a precursor of captive writers such as Cervantes or Dostoevsky, Marco Polo then went on to write a large book about his travels: the Livre des merveilles du monde (Book of the Marvels of the World, ca. 1300 AD).
To us, 21st-century fast-paced tourists and business-trav..more

Mar 08, 2015Dan Schwent rated it liked it

Marco Polo and Kublai Khan talk of cities Marco has visited.
Where to begin with this one? I thought the writing was beautiful. Calvino and his translator painted vivid pictures of various cities, each a seemingly magical realm with its own quirks. As Marco tells more and more stories, Kublai questions the nature of his empire.
Unfortunately, very little actually happens. While they are very well written, the individual city tales read almost like entries in a poet's travel journal. There's not re..more

Oct 12, 2013Rakhi Dalal rated it it was amazing

A city inhabiting one’s inside, its streets, lanes and by-lanes running in the veins and arteries, the hubbub of the city enlivening even the tiniest fraction of a being. The city; living, breathing, growing and leaving an impression in the very essence, even if it is never visited in one’s lifetime. And then - a multitude of such cities, standing under the auspices of their heritage, a witness to the chronicles of their golden times, cities with their halos; an invisible but inescapable allure...more

Feb 05, 2016Anuradha rated it it was amazing

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'What are men to rocks and mountains?' - Jane Austen
Or should I say, 'What are men to cities and structures?'
I finish Invisible Cities as my parents plan their trip to Europe. As someone who loves going to new places and travelling, there is a sense of irony that I feel as I review this. As a 21 year old student with neither the money nor the means to embark on a journey myself, I find myself wandering about the cities that Marco Polo describes to the great Kublai Khan.
Invisible Cities is a f..more

Mar 16, 2009J.G. Keely rated it liked it

Shelves: fantasy, philosophy, reviewed, italy, urban-fantasy

In writing, pretension is the act of pulling your hamstring while lifting your pen. It is that sudden, clear, and unfortunate. It should also be avoidable, but anyone gifted with a grain of brilliance is tempted to extend it as far as they can, like Donne's speck of dust stretched the length of the universe, one is left wondering whether it was more ludicrous or thought-provoking.
Calvino's 'Invisible Cities' is a series of descriptions of mythical, impossible cities told by Marco Polo to Kublai..more

Sep 11, 2014Megha rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

If on a winter's night a traveller were to set out to traverse the garden of forking paths, she could perhaps follow the moon in its flight to catch the sleepwalkers caught in a midsummer night's dream. She could walk east of Eden to see midnight's children appear, only to lose themselves into a frolic of their own. She could turn at a bend in the river to come upon the savage detectives figuring out the curious incident of the dog in the nighttime. She could walk up to the tree of smoke and fin..more

Mar 05, 2013Madeleine rated it it was amazing

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Italo Calvino is a veritable drug. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise, and don't trust them if they do.
Ever since the rapturous reading experience that is If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, I have been hooked on the man's words. As it is with most blossoming relationships, I'm a little wary of coming on too strong or getting too close too quickly and chipping away at the charming veneer of novelty in the throes of my overeager enthusiasm before we've gotten comfortable with each other, but this..more

Jun 23, 2012Garima rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

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Since my copy of if on a winter's night a traveler is on its way, I thought of equipping myself with writings of Italo Calvino. In the meanwhile I laid my hands upon Invisible Cities. It’s one of the few books to which I have given 5 stars making it clearly evident as to how much I loved it. This work of Calvino is an unadulterated imagination booksonified. It can best be described as the figment of everybody’s imagination. I hope I can safely say for everyone that once in our lives we have imag..more

Sep 22, 2016Mohsin Maqbool rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

THERE are books that you read and forget. And then there are books that you read and they get etched in your mind forever; Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’ is one such book.
image:
Marco Polo the magnificent.
Marco Polo visits the imperial palace of Chinese Emperor Kublai Khan and describes to him all the beautiful cities of the world that he has visited.
But can these magnificent cities really exist? Are they just a figment of Mr Polo’s imagination? Or is he just describing Venice while stretc..more

Nov 02, 2015Nandakishore Varma rated it really liked it

Oh,the city, city.. the endless sea..
Fun and games on top, mud and filth beneath -
A beauty who smiles on the surface;
The mistress who wouldn't let you go..

So wrote one of our poets.
You live in the city: and slowly, the city starts living in you. It takes on a life of its own in your mind. Once the city gets to you, it won't let you go. (I speak from personal experience. I spent twelve eventful years of my life in Cochin, and I carry that city with me, even here in the Middle East.)
Italo Ca..more

Feb 22, 2014Algernon (Darth Anyan) rated it it was amazing

After sunset, on the terraces of the palace, Marco Polo expounded to the sovereign the results of his missions. As a rule the Great Khan concluded his day savoring these tales with half-closed eyes until his first yawn was the signal for the suite of pages to light the flames that guided the monarch to the Pavilion of August Slumber.
But this time Kublai seemed unwilling to give in to the weariness.
'Tell me another city!' he insisted.
With Marco Polo cast in the role of Scheherezade and Kublai K..more

Sep 17, 2015Pradnya K. rated it really liked it

I live in a city. It's not small, neither big but it's always happening. It's sheltered with huge green trees and the city looks like an emerald. When seasons change, the city changes its colors. It then resembles to red rubies or molten gold. I wish it'd be lapis lazuli once in a year. My city is strange in a way. It's a city I've always dreamt of since childhood when I just knew it by name. Accidentally I stumbled into it and never left. But I feel it hypnotized me, pulled me towards it and ne..more

Feb 26, 2012Ian 'Marvin' Graye rated it it was amazing

Shelves: reviews-5-stars, reviews, calvino, read-2014

Hidden Cities * 6
You once asked me to describe Venice, and I told you that, every time I described a city, I was saying something about Venice. That was only partly true. In a way, I told you everything I knew about Venice, and nothing.
The truth is that when we first met, I barely knew Venice, its buildings, its canals, its gardens, its squares, its people. Does that surprise you? It shouldn’t. Let me explain why.
Do you know how old I was when I first left Venice with my father and uncle? Six..more

Cities and Eyes
There is a world that lies atop a mound of green, where the treetops are tinged with rust and people fly by on bicycles and shoes with wheels. The saunterers wander off the criss-crossed madness of paths and cut up and down hills, across grassy plains, diving into the forested fringes.
We are on Mount Royal, the fabled dead volcano visited by schoolchildren on geography trips and tourists searching for a grander view of the city below. The air is crisp up here. Each inch of space..more

Jul 31, 2009Geoff rated it it was amazing

All the spaces we inhabit are in some way our dreams. All the spaces we pass through are composed by our subjective perceptions for us as much as they are composed of the objective material that works on those perceptions. All spaces hold and reflect something of ourselves, our histories. I sit in my carefully arranged room composing this piece on Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities; I am seated in a comfortable chair, it is arranged below a window that lets in copious light in the mornings and aft..more

Mar 28, 2016Steven Godin rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Enchanting and majestically spellbinding, Calvino weaves us with descriptive beauty through the picturesque travels of Marco Polo who talks of wondrous cities to the imperial Kublai Khan. Less of a story and more an ordering and reordering of the emotional and philosophical reverberations of our civilized world, with an elegant poetic prose per chapter which resulted in 165 pages of pure imaginative bliss.

Apr 11, 2015[P] rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

You: What is Invisible Cities?
[P]: A short Borgesian novel by Italo Calvino in which the traveller Marco Polo describes a series of [mostly fantastical] cities for the Mongolian emperor Kublai Khan.
You: What’s it all about?
[P]: I just told you.
You: No, you gave me a synopsis. What’s it really about? What was this Calvino guy trying to say?
[P]: Ah, shit.
You: You don’t know?
[P]: I’m not sure. It’s hard to explain. Marcel Proust once wrote, “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new..more

Jun 07, 2017Bradley rated it liked it

I think this short fiction is quite beautifully drawn, a dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Kahn that consists mostly of one enormous travelogue consisting of cities, their differences, and eventually, only their consistencies and made-made up features.
There's nothing much more to it except cities and brief descriptions of each, from ancient all the way to modern cities and even cities magical and purely imaginary. On a few occasions, there's a philosophical discussion about what is perceive..more

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Italo Calvino was born in Cuba and grew up in Italy. He was a journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If On a Winter's Night a Traveler (1979).
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Invisible Cities
Author	Italo Calvino
Original title	Le città invisibili
Translator	William Weaver
Cover artist	René Magritte, The Castle in the Pyrenees, 1959
Country	Italy
Language	Italian
Publisher	Giulio Einaudi
Publication date	1972
1974
Media type	Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages	165 pp (first English edition)
ISBN	0-15-145290-3 (first English edition)
OCLC	914835
853/.9/14
LC Class	PZ3.C13956 In PQ4809.A45

Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) is a novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in 1972 by Giulio Einaudi Editore.

Description[edit]

The book explores imagination and the imaginable through the descriptions of cities by an explorer, Marco Polo. The book is framed as a conversation between the elderly and busy emperor Kublai Khan, who constantly has merchants coming to describe the state of his expanding and vast empire, and Polo. The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as parables or meditations on culture, language, time, memory, death, or the general nature of human experience.

Short dialogues between Kublai and Polo are interspersed every five to ten cities discussing these topics. These interludes between the two characters are no less poetically constructed than the cities, and form a framing device that plays with the natural complexity of language and stories. In one key exchange in the middle of the book, Kublai prods Polo to tell him of the one city he has never mentioned directly—his hometown. Polo's response: 'Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice.'

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Historical background[edit]

Invisible Cities deconstructs an archetypal example of the travel literature genre, The Travels of Marco Polo, which depicts the journey of the famed Venetian merchant across Asia and in Yuan Dynasty (Mongol Empire) China. The original 13th-century travelogue shares with Calvino's novel the brief, often fantastic accounts of the cities Polo claimed to have visited, along with descriptions of the city's inhabitants, notable imports and exports, and whatever interesting tales Polo had heard about the region.

Structure[edit]

Over the nine chapters, Marco describes a total of fifty-five cities, all women's names. The cities are divided into eleven thematic groups of five each:

Cities & Memory
Cities & Desire
Cities & Signs
Thin Cities
Trading Cities
Cities & Eyes
Cities & Names
Cities & the Dead
Cities & the Sky
Continuous Cities
Hidden Cities

He moves back and forth between the groups, while moving down the list, in a rigorous mathematical structure. The table below lists the cities in order of appearance, along with the group they belong to:

Chapter No.	Memory	Desire	Signs	Thin	Trading	Eyes	Names	Dead	Sky	Continuous	Hidden
1	Diomira
	Isidora
	Dorothea
	Zaira
	Anastasia
	Tamara
	Zora
	Despina
	Zirma
	Isaura
2	Maurilia
	Fedora
	Zoe
	Zenobia
	Euphemia
3	Zobeide
	Hypatia
	Armilla
	Chloe
	Valdrada
4	Olivia
	Sophronia
	Eutropia
	Zemrude
	Aglaura
5	Octavia
	Ersilia
	Baucis
	Leandra
	Melania
6	Esmeralda
	Phyllis
	Pyrrha
	Adelma
	Eudoxia
7	Moriana
	Clarice
	Eusapia
	Beersheba
	Leonia
8	Irene
	Argia
	Thekla
	Trude
	Olinda
9	Laudomia
	Perinthia
	Procopia
	Raissa
	Andria
	Cecilia
	Marozia
	Penthesilea
	Theodora
	Berenice

In each of the nine chapters, there is an opening section and a closing section, narrating dialogues between the Khan and Marco. The descriptions of the cities lie between these two sections.

The matrix of eleven column themes and fifty-five subchapters (ten rows in chapters 1 and 9, five in all others) shows some interesting properties. Each column has five entries, rows only one, so there are fifty-five cities in all. The matrix of cities has a central element (Baucis). The pattern of cities is symmetric with respect to inversion about that center. Equivalently, it is symmetric against 180 degree rotations about Baucis. Inner chapters (2-8 inclusive) have diagonal cascades of five cities (e.g. Maurila through Euphemia in chapter 2). These five-city cascades are displaced by one theme column to the right as one proceeds to the next chapter. In order that the cascade sequence terminates (the book of cities is not infinite!) Calvino, in chapter 9, truncates the diagonal cascades in steps: Laudomia through Raissa is a cascade of four cities, followed by cascades of three, two, and one, necessitating ten cities in the final chapter. The same pattern is used in reverse in chapter 1 as the diagonal cascade of cities is born. This strict adherence to a mathematical pattern is characteristic of the Oulipo literary group to which Calvino belonged.

Awards[edit]

The book was nominated for the Nebula Award for Best Novel in 1975.^[1]

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Opera[edit]

Invisible Cities (and in particular the chapters about Isidora, Armilla, and Adelma) is the basis for an opera by composer Christopher Cerrone, first produced by The Industry^[2] in October 2013 as an experimental production at Union Station in Los Angeles. In this site-specific production directed by Yuval Sharon, the performers, including eleven musicians, eight singers, and eight dancers, were located in (or moved through) different parts of the train station, while the station remained open and operating as usual. The performance could be heard by about 200 audience members, who wore wireless headphones and were allowed to move through the station at will.^[3]^[4]^[5] An audio recording of the opera was released in November 2014.^[6]^[7]^[8] The opera was named a finalist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Music.^[9]