Italo Calvino was an Italian journalist and writer mainly in short stories and novels. Some of his main works are The Castle of Crossed Destines and Cosmicomics,a collection of the short stories. In particular, he became famous with Invisible Cities ,a novel where the Calvino used a wide imagination. Specifically, he explains the cities which were discovered by the explorer, Marco Polo. The book consist of conversations between the two main characters in this book, Kublai Khan and Marco Polo. The part that I was highly impressed is the "Cities & Memory 3".
"Cities & Memory 3"
Here the author explains the city of Zaira, illustrating as city of high bastions. Calvino describes Zaira in several details starting from infrastructure of the city and then continues with his broad imagination. He assumes that memory is part of each period of our life,and we cannot escape from it. It follows us everywhere despite that we are not aware of it. The climax of this great short dialog is when the Calvino define memory with the words
“ As this wave from memories flows in, the city soaks up like a sponge and expands”.
This story enables the reader to feel unique experience of the Calvino's perception about memory. Moreover, the author provided us with great imagination from which we have a clear picture as we easily conceive the real message of this story.
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