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Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino -

" I think I have written something like a last love poem to the city, when becomes increasingly difficult to live them as city."

Italo Calvino writes in his "Invisible Cities", one of his written more than succeeded.

The book consists of a series of reports that travel is an imaginary Marco Polo to Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Mongol descendants of Genghis Khan.
Marco Polo sets the reader in a sort of revisiting of "The Million", his stories, short and full of meaning, the cities he visited, in which words are chosen carefully weighed by the author, that combined to create a 'lovely atmosphere and absolutely fascinating.
E 'useless for me to dwell on a review of "traditional" about this book is a book to live, a fantastic journey that takes you from the most unexpected and diverse city, from city to city crowded and gray suspended in the sky, the thin city.
The player takes off and glides while reading on each of the city, imagining everything that Calvin descrive.Il flight but a flight is low, because it is impossible to miss the references to modern cities and Calvin hides or reveals (in an extraordinary way ) in each racconto.Non imaginative journeys are ends in themselves, the author expresses it with his criticism of the "non-city" modern. But Calvin did not want to prophesy disaster and apocalypse, just wants to show the invisible part of every city, consisting of memory, desires, symbols that each of these hides under her "tends architectural .

addition to the images described by the narrator in the novel there are interludes in the beginning of each chapter, in which Calvino writes down the discussions between his imaginary Marco Polo and Kublai Khan.

The true meaning of the author and the philosophy of ' whole book is contained in these dialogues, where Marco Polo reflects on his travels, which he attended on the scene and, with the aim of bringing to the Great Khan's what the position of his empire, to lend his eyes to show the great emperor how vast and jagged the kingdom he ruled. The magnificent building becomes a place of projection, where the 'Emperor sees the "film" of his city, beautifully told by the words of Calvin, hidden behind the Italian character of the explorer.

Written by: Andrea Gaetani