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Literature · 1972

Invisible Cities

Italo Calvino

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Invisible Cities
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Lets the memory thread settle into a deeper literature form.

Marco Polo describes 55 cities to Kublai Khan. Architecture as philosophy, geography as dream.

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Marco Polo describes 55 cities to Kublai Khan. Architecture as philosophy, geography as dream.

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Marco Polo describes 55 cities to Kublai Khan. Architecture as philosophy, geography as dream.

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