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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) is a postmodern novel by Italian writer Italo Calvino. It was published in Italy in by Giulio Einaudi Editore.

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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 five to ten cities discussing the same topics. These interludes between the two characters are no less poetically constructed than the cities, and form a framing device that plays with the natural complexity of language and stories. In the middle of the book, Kublai ask Invisible Cities Literary Elements - GradeSaver FAHE