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Article: The immemorial waters of Venice: woman as anodyne in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.(Critical essay)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- March 22, 2009
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Eternally the slave of the becoming of your thought. Forever veiled
in your airy productions. But I want to disentangle myself from your
appearances, unravel again and again the mirages conjured up by your
seductiveness and find where I begin once more.
--Luce Irigaray, Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche
In his sophisticated sequence of vignettes, Italo Calvino offers the reader a series of fantastic cityscapes that finally coalesce and reveal themselves to belong to a single city--Venice. The narrator of these tales is Marco Polo, whose talent for storytelling serves the emperor Kublai Khan by replenishing his dreams and recreating the patterns of ...