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reviewed Invisible cities by Italo Calvino (Harvest/HBJ book)

Italo Calvino: Invisible cities (1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich)

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities …

Review of 'Invisible cities' on 'Goodreads'

Exquisite. Quick to read, but vast and full of possibility. A love poem to an infinite number of cities, or perhaps just to one: a city defined by the superposition of all the stories -- or by the things left unsaid, when all the stories are told. Echoes of [a:Jorge Luis Borges|500|Jorge Luis Borges|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1306036027p2/500.jpg].