Understanding Invisible Cities with Author’s Illustrations for each and every City

A Study Guide with Pen Sketches in today’s context (10 of 55 Cities included here, more to follow) The authors will interpret and illustrate each of the 55 cities through a series of blogs; this blog covers 10 Cities (Diomira, Isidora, Dorothea, Zaira, Anastasia, Tamara, Zora, Despina, Zirma & Isaura) from Part 1 of the book. You must have read books on life lessons, but imagine discovering the biggest truths of life through a ride across 55 cities; cities which don’t exist, but as you read along you know you have lived, experienced, appreciated, hated, loved, feared and internalized the incredible accounts of these places through space and time in your own lives. The authors take you through the metaphysical and emotional dimensions of these cities and throw some questions for the readers’ food for thought. The illustrations are a product of reference images and author’s own imagination. Diomira, Calvino’s first city, gives a vivid account of a city with 60 silver domes, bronze statues and a golden rooster. Is it an imaginary city or is it an offshoot of Marco Polo’s memory of his travel diaries. But, in either case, what is meaning behind it? How is the same space capable of creating equally opposite perceptions of happiness and envy — just a few minutes apart? Is it the rhetoric of an idyllic utopia, which doesn’t really exist? Or is it the personification of human emotions that thrives on memories — memories which in itself are transient. Calvino’s cities are indeed a disguised narrative of metaphors. <a href="https://medium.com/@pooja.tarun.patel/understanding-invisible-cities-with-authors-illustrations-for-each-and-every-city-3648e044279d">Read More</a>