'In Italo Calvino’s novel, Invisible Cities,
a world traveler named Marco Polo describes the cities of a vast but
crumbling empire to its ruler, Kublai Khan. Over time, the intricate
descriptions of the cities begin to overlap until the khan slowly
realizes that his appointed traveler has been describing the same city,
an imagined city, over and over, in fragments — each vignette exposing
another perspective, unveiling yet another city, where death mirrors
life and cities are named after Italian women. Each city is suspended
between reality and imagination, structured on a set of absurd rules,
reminding the reader that a city can only be absorbed through short
glances, each glance anchored to an object, a story, or a memory.'
From:
Amal Hanano (a pseudonym for a Syrian-American writer): Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
http://warincontext.org/2012/12/12/the-land-of-topless-minarets-and-headless-little-girls/
From:
Amal Hanano (a pseudonym for a Syrian-American writer): Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.
http://warincontext.org/2012/12/12/the-land-of-topless-minarets-and-headless-little-girls/
