Calvino Invisible Cities

About Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities (1972) is one of the most beautiful books ever written — the fictional dialogue between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan, in which Polo describes 55 imaginary cities, each organized around a different principle: memory, desire, signs, the dead, time. A work of philosophy disguised as poetry disguised as fiction, and one of the pinnacles of Italian literature.