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npmorgan_225 's review for:
Invisible Cities
by Italo Calvino
I will come back, at some later date, to give perhaps a more detailed review of this frankly unbelievable piece of writing. Maybe I won't. In my preliminary research I saw a quote from some notable literary critic - so notable that I can remember neither the name or the quote exactly. In any case, it was something along the lines of: to describe a book like this is to ruin the magic within it. Something like that. It might have been attached to Invisible Cities. It might not have been.
Regardless, that sentiment stuck in my head the entire time I was reading this, thinking about how much I would love to recommend this to so many people, and to discuss it with even more. I do not know how I would recommend this book in any way other than the vague dancing-around-the-point I am doing currently.
That's why I say maybe I will come back and write something more detailed. But, this seems to be a work that evades any precise description, at least from my inexperienced mind.
Unreal imagination. I would have read the entire thing in a day had I not suffered a massive headache/nausea combination in the evening. I almost feel compelled to immediately read this again - but I shall not. I will let the magic rest within me, so that a return will be so much sweeter.
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"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.'"
Regardless, that sentiment stuck in my head the entire time I was reading this, thinking about how much I would love to recommend this to so many people, and to discuss it with even more. I do not know how I would recommend this book in any way other than the vague dancing-around-the-point I am doing currently.
That's why I say maybe I will come back and write something more detailed. But, this seems to be a work that evades any precise description, at least from my inexperienced mind.
Unreal imagination. I would have read the entire thing in a day had I not suffered a massive headache/nausea combination in the evening. I almost feel compelled to immediately read this again - but I shall not. I will let the magic rest within me, so that a return will be so much sweeter.
~
"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.'"