Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities. — San Diego ; New York ; London, 1974

Invisible Cities / Italo Calvino ; Translated from the Italian by William Weaver. — San Diego ; New York ; London : A Harvest Book A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book Harcourt Brace & Company, 1974. — 165 p. — ISBN 0-15-645380-0

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) was an Italian novelist and short story writer. 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). Invisible Cities is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco 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 commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally. Short dialogues between Kublai and Polo are interspersed every five to ten cities discussing the same 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.

Итало Кальвино (итал. Italo Calvino; 15 октября 1923 — 19 сентября 1985) — итальянский писатель и журналист. Его наиболее известные работы — романы «Замок скрестившихся судеб» (Il castello dei destini incrociati), «Невидимые города» (Le cittá invisibili, 1972), «Если однажды зимней ночью путник» (Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore, 1979). В «Невидимых городах» исследуются воображение и воображаемое через описания городов, совершенное Марко Поло. Книга оформлена как разговор между Марко Поло и стареющим императором Кубла-ханом, к которому постоянно прибывают купцы, описывающие состояние его обширной и продолжабщей расширяться империи. Большая часть книги состоит из коротких стихотворений в прозе, описывающих 55 городов. Короткие диалоги между двумя персонажами перемежают каждые пять-десять описаний городов, которые используются для обсуждения различных философско-урбанистических идей.

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7 Cities and memory. 1.

8 Cities and memory. 2.

9 Cities and desire. 1.

10 Cities and memory. 3.

12 Cities and desire. 2.

13 Cities and signs. 1.

15 Cities and memory. 4.

17 Cities and desire. 3.

19 Cities and signs. 2.

20 Thin cities. 1.

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30 Cities and memory. 5.

32 Cities and desire. 4.

34 Cities and signs. 3.

35 Thin cities. 2.

36 Trading cities. 1.

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45 Cities and desire. 5.

47 Cities and signs. 4.

49 Thin cities. 3.

51 Trading cities. 2.

53 Cities and eyes. 1.

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61 Cities and signs. 5.

63 Thin cities. 4.

64 Trading cities. 3.

66 Cities and eyes. 2.

67 Cities and names. 1.

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75 Thin cities. 5.

76 Trading cities. 4.

77 Cities and eyes. 3.

78 Cities and names. 2.

80 Cities and the dead. 1.

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88 Trading cities. 5.

90 Cities and eyes. 4.

92 Cities and names. 3.

94 Cities and the dead. 2.

96 Cities and the sky. 1.

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105 Cities and eyes. 5.

106 Cities and names. 4.

109 Cities and the dead. 3.

111 Cities and the sky. 2.

114 Continuous cities. 1.

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124 Cities and names. 5.

126 Cities and the dead. 4.

127 Cities and the sky. 3.

128 Continuous cities. 2.

129 Hidden cities.

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140 Cities and the dead. 5.

144 Cities and the sky. 4.

146 Continuous cities. 3

148 Hidden cities. 2.

150 Cities and the sky. 5.

152 Continuous cities. 4.

154 Hidden cities. 3.

156 Continuous cities. 5.

159 Hidden cities. 4.

161 Hidden cities. 5.

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