As you make your way through Calvino's cities, you might find the following questions helpful as a kind of reading guide. I would highly recommend pausing after each city to reflect on what you've just read, what impressions you have, and what still confuses you (the kind of delicious-hurt-your-brain-in-the-best-sort-of-way confusion).
GUIDING QUESTIONS:
- For each city, we might ask: What vision is this? How is this city known to Polo and to you/the reader? What impressions are you left with? Do any cities resemble each other?
- What are the relationships between the different categories/sections/chapters in the book? Are there any?
- What is the relationship between the conversation that Marco Polo has with Kublai Kahn and the cities we read about?
- What is the function of the journey for Marco Polo? for Kublai Kahn? for the reader?
- Do you notice any patterns emerging? (I'm thinking of things like seeing/invisibility, the past/memory, dreams/imagining, etc.)
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