Invisible Cities x Italo Calvino

Invisible cities

Fifty-five imaginative cities are portrayed with exquisite detail, each bearing a woman's name.

In "Invisible Cities," Marco Polo creates enchanting cities from a bygone era for his audience, the Chinese emperor Kublai Khan. However, it soon becomes evident that he is, in fact, depicting a single city: Venice. As Gore Vidal noted, "Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult, and in the case of a remarkable work like 'Invisible Cities,' it is entirely beside the point."