In this site-specific production directed by Yuval Sharon, the performers, including eleven musicians, eight singers, and eight dancers, were located in (or moved through) different parts of the train station, while the station remained open and operating as usual. Jessica Gelt, "The Industry starts label, to hold free concert at Union Station", Los Angeles Times, October 2, 2014.

Penso d'aver scritto qualcosa come un ultimo poema d'amore alle città, nel momento in cui diventa sempre più difficile viverle come città. Reed Johnson, "Union Station the platform for the opera 'Invisible Cities': The Industry opera company and L. In each of the nine chapters, there is an opening section and a closing section, narrating dialogues between the Khan and Marco. Calvino, in chapter 9, truncates the diagonal cascades in steps: Laudomia through Raissa is a cascade of four cities, followed by cascades of three, two, and one, necessitating ten cities in the final chapter.Einband etwas läsiert und bestoßen Schlagworte: Literatur*italienisch/ italy Versandkosten können abweichen. Invisible Cities deconstructs an archetypal example of the travel literature genre, The Travels of Marco Polo, which depicts the eponymous Venetian merchant's journey across Asia and in Yuan China ( Mongol Empire).

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. A. Dance Project are presenting 'Invisible Cities' on a unique platform — Union Station train terminal — and beaming it through headphones. This strict adherence to a mathematical pattern is characteristic of the Oulipo literary group to which Calvino belonged.The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally. Città reali scomposte e trasformate in chiave onirica, e città diaboliche e surreali che diventano archetipi moderni di un testo narrativo altamente poetico. These five-city cascades are displaced by one theme column to the right as one proceeds to the next chapter. The performance could be heard by about 200 audience members, who wore wireless headphones and were allowed to move through the station at will.

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Mark Swed, "Review: An inward tour through 'Invisible Cities'", Los Angeles Times, October 21, 2013. Sandra Barrera, "'Invisible Cities' is first release for The Industry’s new record label", Los Angeles Daily News, October 24, 2014. Short dialogues between Kublai and Polo are interspersed every five to ten cities discussing the same topics. You can take the stories as a parable on the forthcoming decline of the Kublai Khan’s empire or you can take them as short, beautifully poetic descriptions of imagined places or as something in between, perhaps a series of pleasing portraits which combine to form an idealised structure of cities or even an empire.The original 13th-century travelogue shares with Calvino's novel the brief, often fantastic accounts of the cities Polo claimed to have visited, along with descriptions of the city's inhabitants, notable imports and exports, and stories by Polo about the region. Trascurabili segni del tempo alla sovraccoperta (con una piccola mancanza di 1 cm x 1 cm nella parte bassa del retro di sovraccoperta). The matrix of eleven column themes and fifty-five subchapters (ten rows in chapters 1 and 9, five in all others) shows some interesting properties. Envoi autographe signé de l'auteur : "A Maurice Nadeau / hommage amical / de Italo Calvino / mai 74". Un imperatore melanconico, un Kublai Khan che dopo aver conquistato il mondo ha perso ogni speranza di salvarlo dal suo lento sfacelo, ascolta dalla voce di un Marco Polo visionario le descrizioni di citta misteriose" (dalla sovraccoperta).

In the novel, the reader finds themselves playing a game with the author, wherein they must find the patterns hidden in the book.Invisible Cities (and in particular the chapters about Isidora, Armilla, and Adelma) is the basis for an opera by composer Christopher Cerrone, first produced by The Industry [3] in October 2013 as an experimental production at Union Station in Los Angeles. The reader can therefore play with the book's structure, and choose to follow one group or another, rather than reading the book in chronological chapters. Invisible Cities is an example of Calvino's use of combinatory literature, and shows influences of semiotics and structuralism.