Section 2- Invisible Cities

One thing that struck me from the very beginning of the second part was the way the author rewrote a sentence so that it could keep the same meaning but be expressed in several different ways. I could try to find evidence that maybe some of the material mentioned in the second section can be rewritten so that the reader can have a different perspective on the same city. They would have to be very personal interpretations of what the author could also be trying to portray through each part but this would be a very hard thing to investigate specifically. I do think that he may be trying to encourage his readers to open their minds to other possibilities that these descriptions of cities could be hiding and the results would be intriguing, though hard to find. This would take a very deep analysis of each part of the section to see whether I can derive a parallel to a city or description.

Section 1- Invisible Cities

One possible idea that I got from section one of "Invisible Cities" exploring form versus content. I found that Italo Calvino's work is very precise and full of very interesting imagery and maybe I could compare his interesting writing style with the content and see if they match or whether he emphasizes one more than the other. Since his work is clearly fictional it would be interesting to explore how realistic he tries to make his cities or if he wants his readers to know that there is no such city. I could analyze the reasons for remebering different parts of the cities for example how in one part he writes only about signs and another only about desires etc. I think that that is one very creative way of making form reflect content.