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Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1972
Originally in
Originally in Italian
Pages
Pages 160

An explorer describes dozens of impossible cities to an ageing emperor, and every one turns out to be a way of talking about desire, memory and the one city he left behind.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

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