Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities ***

In a One Thousand and One Nights type of scenario, Marco Polo tells the emperor Kublai Khan about cities he has seen during his travels across Khan's empire. The descriptions are allegorical and attempt to convey what the cities feel like rather than what they look like. Each one runs about a page and a half, written in a style that splits the difference between prose and poetry.

It's an enjoyable, dream-like book that gets three stars for being almost exactly what I expected.

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