5/18/2023 0 Comments Marco polo invisible cities![]() While Marco Polo recounts his journeys to the emperor, Italo Calvino recounts this exchange in Invisible Cities (1972). These varied cities manifest the desires and the memories of their inhabitants the inhabitants and the cities mold and shape one another, coexisting in a symbiotic relationship-and no traveller passing through one of these cities leaves unchanged. Another is built with neither walls, nor ceilings, nor floors, instead characterized only by an extensive labyrinth of water pipes and existing in a state of semi-desertion. One is made from ropes spanning two mountain peaks, defined by its citizens’ awareness of its precarious existence. These cities exist in seemingly impossible forms. ![]() Seated in a lush garden, Marco Polo relates to Kublai Khan tales of the fantastical cities scattered throughout the Khan’s empire. ![]()
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