Invisible cities - Italo Calvino Tatjana Daan Marianne Brooker’s mother was diagnosed

Marianne Brooker’s mother was diagnosed with primary progressive multiple sclerosis

In deze grootse mythe wordt de mens tot op het bot ontleed

schoenpoetsers die Marcel Proust citeren en de Bogotaanse midlifecrisis van William Burroughs

begeleid door essays van twee hedendaagse schrijvers

die op kunstige wijze levenservaring en wetenschappelijke kennis combineert

Invisible cities - Italo Calvino Tatjana Daan Marianne Brooker’s mother was diagnosedIn Invisible Cities Marco Polo conjures up cities of magical times for his host, the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan, but gradually it becomes clear that he is actually describing one city: Venice. As Gore Vidal wrote 'Of all tasks, describing the contents of a book is the most difficult and in the case of a marvellous invention like Invisible Cities, perfectly irrelevant.'