Invisible Cities
Invisible Cities, novel by Italo Calvino, published in 1972 in Italian as Le città invisibili. It consists of a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan in which the former describes a series of wondrous, surreal cities in the khan’s domain. Each city is characterized by a unique quality or concept. The interplay of reality and imagination and the craft of fiction itself are among the work’s underlying issues.
This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.
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Article Title:
Invisible Cities
Website Name:
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher:
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published:
07 December 2015
Access Date:
November 14, 2026