Book Review Travel

Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

Reading Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities while in Venice is like

April 2022, Venice

Reading Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities while in Venice is like:

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i was going to write a list of metaphors that summed that up, but it boils down to this, that it is pointless to do so

to read a description of the magical place in which you are is to not be in that magical place

i put the book down and wandered the city

it is very good

but reading it in venice is…

well, it’s a little gauche


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