Reed Johnson, "Union Station the platform for the opera 'Invisible Cities': The Industry opera company and L. Un imperatore melanconico, un Kublai Khan che dopo aver conquistato il mondo ha perso ogni speranza di salvarlo dal suo lento sfacelo, ascolta dalla voce di un Marco Polo visionario le descrizioni di citta misteriose" (dalla sovraccoperta). This strict adherence to a mathematical pattern is characteristic of the Oulipo literary group to which Calvino belonged. Short dialogues between Kublai and Polo are interspersed every five to ten cities discussing the same topics. Città reali scomposte e trasformate in chiave onirica, e città diaboliche e surreali che diventano archetipi moderni di un testo narrativo altamente poetico.

He moves back and forth between the groups, while moving down the list, in a rigorous mathematical structure. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Penso d'aver scritto qualcosa come un ultimo poema d'amore alle città, nel momento in cui diventa sempre più difficile viverle come città.Each description of each city is very short – often no more than a page – but, more importantly what Marco Polo describes is not the physical city he has seen but the impression that that city has made on him. Calvino, in chapter 9, truncates the diagonal cascades in steps: Laudomia through Raissa is a cascade of four cities, followed by cascades of three, two, and one, necessitating ten cities in the final chapter.

A. Dance Project are presenting 'Invisible Cities' on a unique platform — Union Station train terminal — and beaming it through headphones. Julie Baumgardner, "In a Busy Train Station, a Postmodern Opera Takes Shape", The New York Times, October 29, 2014. Marques de plis dans le coin supérieur de la couverture, légers frottements, parfait état intérieur. At a 1983 conference held at Columbia University, Calvino himself stated that there is no definite end to Invisible Cities because "this book was made as a polyhedron, and it has conclusions everywhere, written along all of its edges.The reader can therefore play with the book's structure, and choose to follow one group or another, rather than reading the book in chronological chapters. Trascurabili segni del tempo alla sovraccoperta (con una piccola mancanza di 1 cm x 1 cm nella parte bassa del retro di sovraccoperta). Each city is, of course, different and there is no connection between the different cities – no description of how they might relate to another city, no description of the journey between them.