Invisible Cities (Audiobook)

from bezoar44

One of my favorite books. The description of the cities are prose poems; the conversations between Marco Polo and Kubla Khan are mediations on memory, language, and the limits of communication. Every time I return to this slim book, it seems to include cities I've never seen before. And then ther...

from DCArchitect

A gem of immaginative genius. Evocative recollections of fanciful and fantastic cities distilled into short, strikingly descriptive and dream-like prose photographs. Loosen your ties to reality and let this book take you. Read it uncritically and let the scenery wash over you. There is no plot. T...

from caerulius

My favorite book. This isn't about plot- it's a sort of meditation on reality. Marco Polo is describing to the great Kublai Khan all the cities in his empire; but they are not bound by traditional rules. The very nature of the "city" is questioned, and these cities are not all made of solid brick...

from gonzobrarian

Though exceedingly short (166 pages), Invisible Cities by author Italo Calvino is so densely constructed that it takes just as long, if not longer to understand, much less even finish the book than it would normally with a three hundred page novel. Indeed, after finishing Calvino's work I'm convi...

from Banoo

Marco Polo describes the many cities he's visited to Kublai Khan. Between the city descriptions Polo and Khan talk. This is Invisible Cities. If you're looking for story, if you're looking for character, if you're looking for lost symbols conjured up by a certain Brown... you won't find it here. ...