Invisible City
About This Novel
The first edition of "Invisible Cities" was published in November 1972 by Einaudi Verlag in Turin. At the time of the book's publication, from late 1972 to early 1973, Calvino had spoken about it in several newspaper articles and interviews. The following is an introduction to this new edition of the "Oscar" series using words from a lecture given by Calvino in a master's class in writing at Columbia University in New York on March 29, 1983. The lecture was originally in English, but the Italian text is used here. It is based on two interviews conducted in 1972 and 1973 and has mostly not been published in Italy. There is no recognizable city in "Invisible Cities". All the cities are fictitious; I gave each of them a woman's name. The book is organized into short chapters, each of which should provide an opportunity to reflect on a particular city, or cities in general.
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Official(5)Scraped 11d ago
Very interesting book
I read it before when I was in college, and it was a bit obscure. The book uses a lot of metaphors to vividly expose the problems that have always existed in society and have not yet been solved. The content of this book is not much, but every sentence and every word is thought-provoking. It is a rare and good book.
Very interesting. The content expressed is really nice!
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So many cities, weird and unique. Except for dream cities, most of them are "ideal" cities, which are not very real. Good imagination
Ok good book, ok good book.
very nice
Character description is clear
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Official(5)Scraped 11d ago
Very interesting book
I read it before when I was in college, and it was a bit obscure. The book uses a lot of metaphors to vividly expose the problems that have always existed in society and have not yet been solved. The content of this book is not much, but every sentence and every word is thought-provoking. It is a rare and good book.
Very interesting. The content expressed is really nice!
Stew randomly
So many cities, weird and unique. Except for dream cities, most of them are "ideal" cities, which are not very real. Good imagination
Ok good book, ok good book.
very nice
Character description is clear
