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There is a fairly strong argument to be made that the entire book is just a love letter to Venice. From the wikipedia: In one key exchange in the middle of the
by rcarr 4y ago
There is a fairly strong argument to be made that the entire book is just a love letter to Venice. From the wikipedia:
In one key exchange in the middle of the book, Kublai prods Polo to tell him of the one city he has never mentioned directly—his hometown. Polo's response: "Every time I describe a city I am saying something about Venice."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities
- mcphage 4y agoI don't think that Invisible Cities usefully reduces down to "talking about a specific city". It talks all about cities, how people live in them, see them from the outside, etc. To say that it's just "all about Venice"—like the back of the book does—flattens the book in a way that takes away everything interesting about it. Or maybe better put: it's clearly not literally all about Venice, since the cities as described do not (and can not) exist. So why make it figuratively all about Venice?