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Invisible Cities Made Visibleby ~monkeelino

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Italo Calvino is my favorite author. Upon reading Invisible Cities for a second time last year, I really wanted to be able to see the structure with which he was repeating chapter titles... the way he seemed to be constructing the book like a repeatable city of its own with an infinite number of variations set within a finite structure. The above graphic resulted.

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~eduzarate Apr 10, 2013 New member

As a fan of this book, I always wondered why the themes of memory and desire disappear so early from Marco's tales. Your visualization makes me think of Calvino peeling off the most obvious layers of meaning for his cities, making room for more playful associations to emerge. Like playing checkers on the reader's mind

Well done! Now if only another fellow italocalvinista would take a shot at the social graph for If on a Winter's Night a Traveller..

~monkeelino Apr 16, 2013

If On a Winter's Night... is actually my favorite Calvino book. That would be a fun visual to tackle--I've been thinking about tryin to do more of these... Maybe some sort of timeline for Cloud Atlas ( by David Mitchell), too. It's amazing how much freedom/creativity comes out of artificial limitations/structures like the ones Calvino imposes upon his books.

"italocalvinista" -- that's a fantastic term!

Thanks for the comment!

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