Magical Realism
by Italo Calvino
In a garden, the aged Kublai Khan listens as young Marco Polo describes fantastical cities from his travels—each one a meditation on desire, memory, death, and human longing. But Polo's cities may all be Venice in disguise, or reflections of cities that exist only in imagination. Calvino constructs an intricate, dreamlike architecture of language and thought where every city conceals something else.
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