Las ciudades invisibles

The invisible cities are presented as a series of travel tales that Marco Polo wrote about Kublai Khan, Emperor of the Tartars... To this melancholic emperor, who has understood that his unlimited power counts for little in a world that is marching towards ruin. an imaginary traveler tells him about impossible cities; for example, a microscopic city that expands and ends up made up of many expanding concentric cities, a spider web city suspended over an abyss, or a two-dimensional city like Moriana... I think what the book evokes is not just a timeless idea of the city, but develops, sometimes implicitly and sometimes explicitly, a discussion about the modern city... I think I have written something like a last love poem for cities when it is increasingly difficult to live them as cities.