![]() ![]() This is because in introduction of this city, there is feeling of change from the monotonous lack of enchantment to a feeling of better and existent life. ![]() ![]() In the analysis of the entire book, I fell in love with the imaginary city of Zobeide. Bit by bit, Khan gets engrossed in the whole story and gets a feeling of physically being part of the non existent places. What remains a major disturbing fact in the whole reading is that even though Khan insists and tries to persuade Polo to talk about his own city, Venice, he only gives descriptions of strange, invisible and imaginary cities that no one has had a chance to see. “Through the walls and towers destined to crumble, the tracery of a pattern so subtle it could escape the termites gnawing” (27). The intimations that surround the narratives has been extensively explored by Calvino. I actually did enjoy reading this book after at least two revisits because of the philosophical nature and thought experiments that project the feeling of nostalgia, history, aging and decline. The book is easy to read because it is appropriately divided into categories by the chapters though it has the concept of overlapping themes between the various categories. In the reading of the book, I wonder what translation may have done to the original piece written by Calvino in his most original language. Although Calvino has tried to introduce the element of family monopolies in bergamot, astrolabes and turquoises, their role in character and plot development are never expounded to a greater detail. The cities described in this book are seldom peopled characters, with the exception of the transitory ones. I am a plot driven reader who is always dismayed by extra ordinary scenery and I must state my disappointment in reading this book for the first time. Reading and describing the book is indeed a very frustrating process because of Calvino’s writing style. Invisible Cities is best classified as “post modern”. ![]()
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