lunes, 28 de mayo de 2012

Surreal Cities and Real Cities?

Can all the cities described in the book be compared with cities in real life? The background information tells us that this cities explores by Polo are invented, we are not literally told. But the name of each location seems inexistent. Maybe  the surreal cities invented but Italo where locations he actually visited, and some descriptions can be consider as a point of view.



Zoe: The place of invisible existence. 
"The man who is traveling and does not yet know the city awaiting him along his route wonders what pa;ace will be like, the barracks, the mill, the theater, the bazaar."

Now with the small description of the city of Zoe, I'm to translated it into a New York City description using almost the same words.

"The tourist who is traveling and does not yet know the city awaiting him along

"In every point of this city you can, in turn, sleep, make tools, cook, accumulate gold, disrobe, reign, sell, question oracles..."
The fact that every corner, street or sidewalk is able to introduce you into different feelings and different adventures. Zoe reminded me of the New York City,
"The traveler roams all around and has nothing but doubts: he is unable to distinguish the features of the city," (34)





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