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Footnote
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Overview
Author
Italo Calvino
Year Published
1972
Type
Novel
Genre
Fiction
Perspective and Narrator
The opening and closing sections of each chapter of Invisible Cities are narrated by an anonymous third-person narrator who describes the fictional relationship and conversations between Emperor of the Yuan, or Mongol, Dynasty, Kublai Khan (1215–94), and Italian explorer Marco Polo (c. 1254–1324). In the other sections of each chapter, Polo narrates, telling Kublai about his travels.
Tense
Invisible Cities is narrated in the present and past tenses.
About the Title
The title Invisible Cities refers to the cities Marco Polo describes to Kublai Khan, based on Polo's travels. Italian author Italo Calvino (1923–85) divides each chapter into different categories of cities.
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