Invisible Cities - Italo Calvino
Shared by:Guest
Written by
Read by John Lee
Format: MP3
Bitrate: Variable
Unabridged
“Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvelous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.”
- Gore Vidal
In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo - Tartar emperor and Venetian traveler. Kublai Khan has sensed the end of his empire coming soon. Marco Polo diverts the emperor with tales of the cities he has seen in his travels around the empire: cities and memory, cities and desire, cities and designs, cities and the dead, cities and the sky, trading cities, hidden cities. Soon it becomes clear that each of these fantastic places is really the same place.
Less a book than a series of prose-like poems, where language seems a magical tool that paints landscapes and cityscapes not confined by just what is known or possible. The words flow through your mind and spark the imagination, leading the listener on a guided imagery trip through worlds that seem suspended in another dimension and time. It is like a fabulous dessert — it needs to be experienced, savored, and languished over.
Originally published in 1972 with a cover that depicted a city of stone towers that rise from a large floating rock above an ocean; a picture that teased and hinted at what was inside
There is no plot - but plot seems irrelevant as you listen to Marco Polo conjure up cities that float between webs, joyous carnival cities, serious cities where no one makes eye contact or speaks, cities that you won’t be returning to, “this is a city just for leaving,” all to entertain the aging Kublai Khan. He creates his own cities that might dwell in his empire, asking Polo if he has seen these in his travels. You ponder the meaning of the words as they are used in this game between the two men, as well as the structure of the cities and their purpose.
Close your eyes and experience a journey.
| Announce URL: | http://tracker.nwps.ws:6969/announce |
| This Torrent also has several backup trackers | |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.nwps.ws:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.winglai.com/announce |
| Tracker: | http://fr33dom.h33t.com:3310/announce |
| Tracker: | http://exodus.desync.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | http://torrent.gresille.org/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.trackerfix.com/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.btzoo.eu:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.windsormetalbattery.com/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://10.rarbg.me:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://ipv4.tracker.harry.lu:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.ilibr.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.zond.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://torrent-tracker.ru/announce.php |
| Tracker: | http://bigfoot1942.sektori.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.best-torrents.net:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | http://announce.torrentsmd.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.token.ro:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://9.rarbg.com:2710/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://open.demonii.com:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.ccc.de:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.ccc.de/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://11.rarbg.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://concen.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://explodie.org:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.istole.it/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.istole.it:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker.publicbt.com/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.publicbt.com:80/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.leechers-paradise.org:6969 |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969 |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.open-internet.nl:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.torrent.eu.org:451/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.opentrackr.org:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://tracker.tiny-vps.com:6969/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://open.demonii.si:1337/announce |
| Tracker: | udp://thetracker.org:80/announce |
| Tracker: | http://tracker2.dler.org:80/announce |
| Creation Date: | Sun, 20 Apr 2014 11:03:10 +0100 |
| This is a Multifile Torrent | |
| 08.Invisible Cities.Chapter8.mp3 35.74 MBs | |
| 01.Invisible Cities.Chapter1.mp3 14.91 MBs | |
| 07.Invisible Cities.Chapter7.mp3 13.11 MBs | |
| 06.Invisible Cities.Chapter6.mp3 11.94 MBs | |
| 02.Invisible Cities.Chapter2.mp3 11.3 MBs | |
| 03.Invisible Cities.Chapter3.mp3 10.35 MBs | |
| 04.Invisible Cities.Chapter4.mp3 8.82 MBs | |
| 05.Invisible Cities.Chapter5.mp3 8.23 MBs | |
| cover.jpg 34.74 KBs | |
| cover1.jpg 19.05 KBs | |
| info.txt 1.48 KBs | |
| Combined File Size: | 114.45 MBs |
| Piece Size: | 128 KBs |
| Comment: | Torrent downloaded from torrent cache at http://itorrents.org Updated by AudioBook Bay |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| Info Hash: | e30c034fa25960f74eefddca75ecd061ec5709ee |
| Torrent Download | Torrent Free Downloads |
| Tips | Sometimes the torrent health info isn’t accurate, so you can download the file and check it out or try the following downloads. |
| Direct Download | Start Direct Download |
| Tips | You could try out alternative bittorrent clients. |
| Secured Download | Download Files Now |
| Ad |
|
This post has 9 comments with rating of 5/5
August 15th, 2019
Thanks so much!
August 15th, 2019
If on a Summer’s Night an Uploader Contributes a Classic Book, one should express one’s fulsome gratitude.
August 15th, 2019
@caesar963 No doubting the classic status of this book, but the narration is awful. John Lee reads as if he is an automaton, lacking any real feeling for the text. It renders the whole thing useless, so no fulsome gratitude from me. Some of us have standards.
August 15th, 2019
Caesar is notoriously sans standards. They were removed via Caesarean.
August 16th, 2019
Indeed Caesar, we all had standards once, and then we were born and had to settle.
Come under this red rock and I will show you disappointment in a handful of dust.
August 16th, 2019
In an effort to elevate my response in order to match (or even exceed) your highly literate, literary allusion, which bestows a discriminating, blessed bounty on this barren comment-land, I reply thusly: (ahem!) - “There once was a man from Nantucket, who…”
August 17th, 2019
There are no less than 3 separate instances of whoring around in the sample audio alone. There is your plot, a theme as thick as the upper arm fat on all these hussies being chronicled.
“Thy love abroad is spite at home” -Emerson, on travel.
March 9th, 2021
Thanks for sharing!
September 22nd, 2024
thank you!
Add a comment (please log in before commenting)