Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Calvino, I (1974). Invisible Cities. 2nd ed. Lonodon: Secker and Warburg. 5 - 148.

Calvino discusses a conversation between an emperor and explorer. The book made of short stories allows us to take a literal journey through each of the cities describing the details and contextualising the space both negative and positive. 

There is an evident language barrier between the two characters their conversations develop a story within a story developing a hierarchy of narratives within the piece, that is reflected in the nature that the cities are described.  

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