A great read that brings the thinking, writing, and imagination of Calvino’s book into new conversations with urban theory and politics, revealing its power to illuminate urban life and to inform creative writing and pedagogy. “A lively, fresh, and wide-ranging encounter with Calvino’s wonderful Invisible Cities. It comes ahead of a widely anticipated Spring counter-offensive by the Ukrainians. The Russians also claim it has a special stealth coating to make it invisible to enemy radar. It consists of a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai. The Armata was unveiled in 2015 but has been dogged by technical problems Credit: Reuters. In a collection of poetic, meditative descriptions of 55 imaginary cities, Calvino explores so many ideas. The following is a lecture given by Italo Calvino to the students of the Graduate Writing Division at Columbia University. Invisible Cities, novel by Italo Calvino, published in 1972 in Italian as Le citt invisibili. “Built environment professionals and researchers, social scientists, and literary enthusiasts and scholars will appreciate this excellent interdisciplinary engagement with Calvino’s Invisible Cities, the concreteness and elusiveness of urban life, and the order and disorder of cities.” (Vinit Mukhija, Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs) No novel captivates me more than Invisible Cities.
Tally Jr., Professor of English, Texas State University, USA) The result is a fascinating study of both Calvino and the urban imagination that will be welcome by all who find themselves enchanted in cities.” (Robert T. This collection of essays does justice to Calvino’s masterpiece, as its contributors widely explore the novel’s seemingly infinite territories, combining theoretical sophistication with close readings. Work done in the context of the project The Graphic. “Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities is a miraculously fascinating work, a postmodern tour-de-force that fires the imagination of the reader and, with each re-reading, discloses new spaces and new ways of seeing. A visual (re)interpretation of the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (first published in 1972).
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