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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
mysterious
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
Once every few years, you read a book that alters how you see the world, the sort of book that you read deliberately slowly to savour every sentence. This is one such book - easily a top 5 book of all time, even beating Winter's Night. It's a book that asks you to configure and reconfigure the same images in your head, because all our imagined cities are of course built from the same memories, but reunderstood each time we reconfigure them, meaning something else, until the multiplicity of the world we live in nearly engulfs us in possibility. Calvino's sparse style is perfect here - elegant but short, always leaving more to our minds to map out. Words are signifiers, but he makes his readers work just as hard as he does, and never has it felt more true that there is a different book here for every reader, just as there are infinite invisible cities.
Det är svårt att riktigt placera den här boken, den har ingen tydlig linje, men det är också det som gör den så speciellt. Den är surrealistiskt och magiskt. Sagolikt och drömmande. Majoriteten av boken består av beskrivningar av de städer som Marco Polo besökt i Kublai Khans stora rike. Men däremellan uppstår också kortare och svävande konversationer personerna emellan. Det är femtiofem städer som beskrivs, och vissa förknippas med minnen, andra med längtan och en tredje med tecken (finns sådär 8 fler teman). Men lite så fortsätter det, för varje stad har sina egna känslor och associationer. Tycker det här är en så himla fin bok, och handlar väl lite om vad en stad egentligen är.
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
challenging
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
relaxing
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Extremely fortunate to happen to read this while on a train to Venice. Though I cannot yet make any claims about the nature of the city it is exciting to hear someone speak so poetically about it.
Also, for fans of Disco Elysium, the style and tone of this book is remarkably akin to the voice given to the Shivers and Inland Empire skills.
Also, for fans of Disco Elysium, the style and tone of this book is remarkably akin to the voice given to the Shivers and Inland Empire skills.
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
