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Travel with Close Readings: ‘Invisible Cities’ by Italo Calvino

The LRB Podcast by London Review of Books

Aug 30, 202697:21Society & Culture

Italo Calvino’s novella Invisible Cities is a hypnagogic reimagining of Marco Polo’s time in the court of Kublai Khan. Polo describes 55 impossible places – cities made of plumbing, free-floating, overwhelmed by rubbish,...

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