Article: The immemorial waters of Venice: woman as anodyne in Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.(Critical essay)

 
  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 ...

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