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4.05 AVERAGE
4.05 AVERAGE
adventurous
relaxing
slow-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
reflective
fast-paced
I don’t know who else this book is for but this book is for me
reflective
slow-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
"L'inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n'è uno, è quello che è già qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne parte fino al punto di non vederlo più. Il secondo è rischioso ed esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere chi e cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio."
adventurous
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
inspiring
mysterious
slow-paced
1,5*
I thought the writing was nice at times, but the city-descriptions didn't (at all) do for me what I think Calvino set out to do.
Clearly I'm alone in this (seeing the average rating), so maybe I'll try again in a couple of years.
I thought the writing was nice at times, but the city-descriptions didn't (at all) do for me what I think Calvino set out to do.
Clearly I'm alone in this (seeing the average rating), so maybe I'll try again in a couple of years.
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Attempting to describe this book’s magic is nearly impossible. A simple plot description would detail the frame story, Marco Polo describing the cities he’s encountered throughout his travels to Kublai Khan; a thematic analysis could focus on the way Calvino personifies each city with a woman’s name and the romantic nature of his descriptions. Both would be a vast oversimplification.
At its core, Invisible Cities focuses on how our subjective perceptions create the entwined feelings of nostalgia and anxiety; it focuses on how these feelings influence our future perception. This recursive cycle best expressed in one of the later frame story interludes, when the Khan asks Polo to describe Venice and he responds: “‘What else do you believe I have been talking about?’… ‘Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice… to distinguish other cities’ qualities, I must first speak of a first city that remains implicit. For me it is Venice… 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.’”
A magical book; a must read.
At its core, Invisible Cities focuses on how our subjective perceptions create the entwined feelings of nostalgia and anxiety; it focuses on how these feelings influence our future perception. This recursive cycle best expressed in one of the later frame story interludes, when the Khan asks Polo to describe Venice and he responds: “‘What else do you believe I have been talking about?’… ‘Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice… to distinguish other cities’ qualities, I must first speak of a first city that remains implicit. For me it is Venice… 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.’”
A magical book; a must read.
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I am still chewing on this book, trying to figure out which cities I have been to, or which one I am in today.
Reading this the first time, you feel like Kublai Khan.
Reading this the first time, you feel like Kublai Khan.
A escrita do autor e belíssima, mas fiquei um pouco cansada das descrições das cidades em alguns momentos (talvez por uma falta minha de veia poética). Fiquei curiosa para ler um livro mais longo dele :)