Italo Calvino’s (1923-1985) Invisible Cities is a work of fiction that continuously reimagines the city of Venice. It demonstrates that the same urban landscape may offer numerous different promises to its various spectators: of new lives and new possibilities, but also of new sensualities, transgressions, and experiments. This article will draw on a number of […]
![Port Cities and Desire in the Work of Italo Calvino Desire is projected across ‘empty’ space in Calvino’s Invisible Cities.
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