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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
Beautifully written!
Tercer libro del club de lectura Mother & Daughter; mamá y yo concordamos con la calificación y con que hay que leerlo varias veces para captar todos esos elementos enredados en la historia. Calvino utiliza muchísimos términos extraños lo cual dificulta un poco la lectura pero también la hace emocionante.
Tercer libro del club de lectura Mother & Daughter; mamá y yo concordamos con la calificación y con que hay que leerlo varias veces para captar todos esos elementos enredados en la historia. Calvino utiliza muchísimos términos extraños lo cual dificulta un poco la lectura pero también la hace emocionante.
Cosa significa essere una città? Calvino ne riesce a descrivere un'infinità, soffermandosi su alcune categorie che ritroviamo nei titoli dei "capitoli".
L'unico collante tra le diverse città è la figura di Marco Polo che racconta all'imperatore dei suoi viaggi e insieme riflettono sul concept del libro.
Lettura interessante soprattutto perché è stata parte integrante della mia tesi di laurea che mi ha aiutata nella sua progettazione concettuale.
L'unico collante tra le diverse città è la figura di Marco Polo che racconta all'imperatore dei suoi viaggi e insieme riflettono sul concept del libro.
Lettura interessante soprattutto perché è stata parte integrante della mia tesi di laurea che mi ha aiutata nella sua progettazione concettuale.
this book is beautiful and inspiring, abstract and concrete— i will think about it over and over until i can think about it no longer
Beautiful writing, just the escape i need
"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it. Or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little."
This little book was such a good read. the beautiful portrayal of the invisible cities in words still stuck in my head after a month.
This book is hard to explain what it is about, because it does not have a specific genre. It's not a collection of short stories, nor is it a memoir. It's just, simply put, a collection of descriptions of the impossible, non-existing cities that the explorer, Marco Polo, claimed he visited when he traveled to Venice. In less than 100 pages, this book was able to make me fall in love with its lyrical writing.
I'm a huge plot seeker- I usually choose to read books that lead to something, a story that has points, the up-downs, arrangements. This book is the opposite and still, I was captivated. such such beautiful writing, especially on the description of the cities! (also it made me miss traveling huhu)
Honestly I don't know how to give a proper review to this book. Just read it and you'll know. I know for sure that I will never get tired of this book, even if I read it thousands of times in the future
"Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased. Perhaps I am afraid of losing Venice all at once, if I speak of it. Or perhaps, speaking of other cities, I have already lost it, little by little."
This little book was such a good read. the beautiful portrayal of the invisible cities in words still stuck in my head after a month.
This book is hard to explain what it is about, because it does not have a specific genre. It's not a collection of short stories, nor is it a memoir. It's just, simply put, a collection of descriptions of the impossible, non-existing cities that the explorer, Marco Polo, claimed he visited when he traveled to Venice. In less than 100 pages, this book was able to make me fall in love with its lyrical writing.
I'm a huge plot seeker- I usually choose to read books that lead to something, a story that has points, the up-downs, arrangements. This book is the opposite and still, I was captivated. such such beautiful writing, especially on the description of the cities! (also it made me miss traveling huhu)
Honestly I don't know how to give a proper review to this book. Just read it and you'll know. I know for sure that I will never get tired of this book, even if I read it thousands of times in the future
funny
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
This just made me want to go back to Venice! But like in a good way, where you’re so transfixed by the writing you lose yourself in the different someone’s created 🥰
This felt like stepping inside a surreal dream.
All the well because just like a dream, I kept forgetting each paragraph just as soon as I started reading the next one. But it all congealed together, by the end, to leave back an inkling of an impression. An impression, that like a dream, cannot be explained with mere words.
How you do dis, Italo?
All the well because just like a dream, I kept forgetting each paragraph just as soon as I started reading the next one. But it all congealed together, by the end, to leave back an inkling of an impression. An impression, that like a dream, cannot be explained with mere words.
How you do dis, Italo?
"He said: 'It is all useless, if the last standing places can only be the infernal city, and it is there that, in ever-narrowing circles, the current is drawing us.'
And Polo said: 'The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and becomes such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.'"
And Polo said: 'The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and becomes such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.'"
adventurous
challenging
reflective
fast-paced