![]() ![]() ![]() This tantalizing literary guide has led across the years to another place of unknowns, a universe inexpressible in any translation - the literary constellation of Invisible Planets. But the enduring beauty of these 55 cities is that none of them fully represent the reality of the world as is, and their power lies in exactly that momentary glimpse into something liminal and vanishing. The worlds upon worlds in these pages offer glimpses of other lives that could be our lives, other homes that could be our homes, other truths that could be our truths. IN ITALO CALVINO’S 1972 Invisible Cities, the reader is introduced to 55 allegorical cities - the sprawling, eternal ambiguity of Penthesilea, the temporal succession of Berenice, the desiring, dreaming trap of Zobeide - each unveiling aspects of a fundamentally unknowable world rendered all the more strange by occasional flashes of revelation. ![]()
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