9/21/2023 0 Comments Author of invisible cities![]() ![]() It’s only the details that differ.Īt the heart of travel writing, then, is the assumption of narrative authenticity - the belief that the narrator is guiding her readers, Virgil-like, through unfamiliar parts of the world and telling readers, as truthfully as possible, what the traveled experience is like. Travel readers have come to expect a similar pattern, then: the narrator comes, they do something, they leave. Most travelogues follow a simple structural schema of encounter, encountered, and mediated experience. Travel writing seems so simple - an audience is introduced to a specific part of the world through a specific impetus for a journey. Denis,” Twain quipped, “I feel certain we have seen enough of them to duplicate him if necessary.”) And, of course, Marco Polo’s journey across the Silk Road and throughout southeast Asia, as told in his 13th-century Travels, is a historic archetype of the genre. In 1869, Mark Twain toured the medieval reliquaries of Europe and wrote his famous travelogue, The Innocents Abroad. In 440 AD, the Greek author Herodotus journeyed all over the Mediterranean Levant describing everything from Egypt’s pyramids and landscapes to unscrupulous souvenir vendors. ![]() Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Womenįor 1,500 years, readers have been captivated by stories of travel.Recommendations: This book is for anyone who loves to explore, not just the cities or the world, but also the world of imagination and life. I would say definitely not for light reading. The language is difficult and lack of any plot makes it more difficult. Regarding the language, well this book needs your full attention while reading. So I found this book appealing and a hidden treasure for me. But there are paths which are not taken if taken would have made our life totally different. We all face many choices and many paths, we choose one and we built our life the way it is today. And each globe shows a different Fedora, the one which it could have been. Let’s say for example the city Fedora where in the building, there is one crystal globe in every room. The book spoke to me on a different level. You may the find the city absurd, you may find it peculiar but the description will always remain wondrous. The way Italo Calvino has described each and every city is nothing but just amazing. ![]() My Views: The one word which I can say about this book is, beautiful. There are many such cities which Marco Polo tells about to Kublai Khan, it can be that these are mere his imaginations, the cities he is travelling in his mind while talking about, or it can be that he is recreating minute details of his native Venice. These are the forms the city could have taken if, for one reason or another, it had not become what we see today. Into each globe, you see a blue city, the model of different Fedora. But these globes are not like the ones we see. He also describes a city named Armilla, this city has no walls, no ceilings, no floors, it has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be.Īnd then there is my favourite city, Fedora, where, in the centre of it stands a metal building with a crystal globe in every room. But they found one another and they decided to build a city like the one in the dream. They dreamed of pursuing her, but they all lost her. A dream in which they saw a woman running at night through an unknown city, seen from behind, naked, with long hair. Then there is a city called Zobeide which is built by men who have an identical dream. While according to others, the gods live in the buckets that rise, suspended from a cable. He described many cities, like Isaura, a city of thousand wells, where according to people, the city’s god lives in the depth, in the black lake that feeds the underground streams. The King may not necessarily believe in all that he says, but he still continues to listen to all his accounts with great attention and curiosity. Plot: Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller and an explorer narrate the cities he has visited on his expeditions to Kublai Khan. ![]()
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