by Italo Calvino · Siruela · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788419553065
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In 'Invisible Cities', Italo Calvino presents us with a series of travel stories that Marco Polo narrates to Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Tartars. Through these conversations, an imaginary traveler describes impossible cities, from a microscopic one that expands to a two-dimensional city suspended over an abyss. Calvino explores the timeless idea of the city and raises a discussion about modernity, offering a love poem to cities in a world where living in them becomes increasingly difficult. This Siruela edition, part of the Italo Calvino Library, has 172 pages and a careful translation by Aurora Bernárdez.
Italo Calvino was an Italian novelist and short story writer. His best-known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
