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.015 [the lost post]
15 years ago
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Le Città Invibili
Of course, I found the structure of the table of contents of Invisible Cities to be extremely creative. I loved the idea that it was a cityscape. So, after the question today about the table of contents in Italian, I started searching for a picture. What I managed to find made me a little disappointed. I found on wikipedia a summary of the book in Italian and it included the full table of contents in Italian. (Click here to see what I found.) I was disappointed because the text looks to be much less city-like. It is far more "flat" on the ends. The middle could still be considered a city-scape, but the first and last sections ruin it for me... The lengths of the names of the chapters are all far more similar than those in English.
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i don't know... the italian image has ruined it for me. I agree with you; it does not look like a cityscape. Although, maybe the cityscape within the english translated version was something Calvino intended while he was talking to the guy who translated it. apparently i am ambivalent (XD).
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