Invisible Cities

Жанр: Random House Inc.

Издатель: Random House, Inc.

Год:1997

Страницы:176

In «Invisible Cities» Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote ‘Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like «Invisible Cities», perfectly irrelevant’.