Invisible Cities

Book summary for "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino: "Invisible Cities" is one of the foundational books of postmodern literature. Fifty-five novellas, structured according to the principles of Tarot card divination and reminiscent of Giovanni Boccaccio's legendary "Decameron". A journey through various cities visited—or purportedly visited—by Marco Polo on behalf of Kublai Khan becomes, in Italo Calvino's writing, a journey through an imaginary world where the cities bear women's names. A riddle of a book, a game of a book, the rules of which are chosen by the reader themselves, who explores the novellas in any order and constructs their own picture of a magical world—absurd, illusory, yet at the same time so much like the frantic life of modern metropolises. Read more…