March into: “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino

Last year we marched in our planet’s orbit, this time we offer more earthly pleasures, however fantastic and far in time and space they may be.

“Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino (165)

According to one promising review this is a book worth many a rereading: A great work of literature is a city we can return to throughout our lives, and each time appreciate different sights…By page 13 of Calvino’s “Invisible Cities” the book feels like a sorcerer’s travelogue dipped in a vat of psilocybin—a Lonely Planet in which all of the destinations are imaginary and none of the directions make any sense.

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 actually is describing just one and not the plurality the title conjures.