Omaggio a Italo Calvino - A Tribute To Italo Calvino

In the wonderful book "The Invisible Cities" Italo Calvino lets the traveling salesman Marco Polo describe the cities he has seen in 9 chapters and seemingly randomly arranged 11 thematic groups. In this excerpt from my work on the book I try to make their inhabitants visible. Pasolini says in his afterword to the book: Each of the descriptions portrays an abnormality in the relationship between the empire of thoughts and reality (the destiny of Western civilization). "The poetic invention consists in the detection of the abnormal moment."