Italo Calvino
Invisible Cities
An odd book having Marco Polo describe various cities to the emperor Kublai Khan. As time goes on it seems that Marco has not visited many of them, indeed all may be made up or modelled on his hometown of . It's odd as it's written as if they are modern with some being steel and glass. There is some discussion between the two about cities and reality of being. Probably cos they're smoking opium I suspect. The city descriptions are about a page each and although interesting I did feel a bit so what. It's one book I don't think I quite got the point of it at all. Maybe as it's written more as a poem in prose and I don't get on with poems usually. Although do like stories written in verse. Anyway, before I get into a prose verse poetry debate with myself I'll just say it's an interesting book to while away the time but I'm not going searching out others of his.
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