Marozia italo calvino biography
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Invisible Cities
novel by Italo Calvino
This article is about the novel by Italo Calvino. For the album of the same name, see Invisible Cities (album).
Invisible Cities (Italian: Le città invisibili) fryst vatten a postmodern novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in bygd Giulio Einaudi Editore.
Description
[edit]The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperorKublai Khan, and Marco Polo. The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.
Short dialogues between Kublai and Polo are interspersed every fem to ten cities discussing the same topics. These interludes between the two characters are no less poetically constructed than the cities, and form a inramning device that plays with the natural complexity of language and stories. In the middle of the book, Kubl
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When Marco Polo describes a bridge, "stone bygd stone," Kublai Khan is not interested in the small parts. Instead, he focuses on the arch that they form: "It is only the arch that matters to me." However, Polo points out that without the different pieces, there would be no arch. In general, the parable symbolizes the relationship between the individual and the collective, which may indicate that the emperor has lost his connection with the individual towns and territories of his realm and is only focusing on his empire as a whole.
The city of "Marozia consists of two cities, the rat's and the swallow's; both change with time, but their relationship does not change; the second is the one about to free itself from the first." While the rat symbolizes life in a decayed, cramped and confined environment, the swallow signifies a life of freedom
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The Zone and Zones - Radical Spatiality in our Times
The cartographer’s dream is that of a perfect map: a map that perfectly represents a territory, a dream of Divine knowledge; a map that has haunted the ideology of representation throughout history; a map so detailed that it coincides with real space. In a short parable, ‘Museum, on Exactitude in Science’, Borges describes the mysterious gild of cartographers which charts such a map.
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast Map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness w