He thus hopes for patterns in descriptions, so that, without knowing every city, he can comprehend the empire. interest in the stories is motivated his determination to possess his empire one day, which he believes he cannot do without knowing and understanding it. As a listener to fantastic descriptions, Kublai is impatient and becomes progressively more domineering. Kublai Khan Kublai Khan, the Tartar emperor. As Marco explains, is not the voice that commands the story: it is the insistence on this theory has the effect of arousing suspicion in Kublai and creates the principal dramatic tension of the story.
The emphasis placed on the perceiver applies equally to act of listening. Regardless of idiom, Marco insists that all the cities he describes exist only as he has perceived them and that all communication is an act of creation. A sort of is created when the two of them sit silently immobile, in private meditation, each imagining what the other is asking or saying. Once he has learned Tartar, Marco speaks, but, accustomed to the early emblematic communications, Kublai prefers to mix speech with pantomime. At first, not knowing the Tartar language, Marco communicates with Kublai means of gestures and pantomime, sometimes resorting to displaying objects to suggest narratives and descriptions. Marco is one of many emissaries reporting to Kublai, serving him helping him to understand the subjects of his vast empire. CHARACTERS Marco Polo Marco Polo, a Venetian traveler, now resident in the court of Kublai Khan. book is also a surreal and postmodern journey through the language of the imagination, a delicious of psychological states, physical states, sensory states, transcendence, and more. It is a work that muses upon the concept of living in a city, the concept of home, and perhaps even the concept of belonging somewhere. However, it quickly becomes clear that while some passages are horribly contrived, the novel is larger in scope than mere descriptions of cities. Indeed, during the interplay between the two characters it is difficult to tell whether the things Polo is describing represent differing aspects of a single city or different cities with the same aspect in each of them. Upon a summary first reading, Invisible Cities could be considered a nice collection of prose works on imaginary cities. Khan also occasionally believes that the cities Polo is describing do not exist at all, except in the Venetian imagination. Throughout the a true dialogue it is, as Khan and Polo are the only two characters in the work (although a case could be made that each city is also its own emperor expresses his belief that Polo is merely describing his home city of Venice in different and fanciful ways, ways that Polo could not use with honesty or impunity in his own land. While there, Polo is instructed to travel the empire and gather not gold or treasure but stories with which to regale the aging, and frequently impatient, conqueror with descriptions of every city he has visited on his long peregrinations through the Mongolian realm, as Khan is bored with his own stories. The stories are set within the framework of a very loose dialogue wherein the famous Venetian explorer Marco Polo comes to the court of the legendary emperor Kublai Khan.
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Instead, it is a collection of about short, highly impressionistic pastiches of arbitrarily named fantastic cities (such as Adelma, Berenice, Chloe, Diomira, Irene, Penthesilea, Phyllis, Raissa, Valdrada, Zirma, and Zobeide, to name a few), placed in a structure that is quite meticulous, yet rambling, that nearly mimics the structure of a full commercial novel. There is no plot or character development. Preview text Invisible Cities Italo Calvino Despite being called a novel, Invisible Cities is not truly a novel.
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