在《看不见的城市》里,人们找不到能认得出的城市。所有的城市都是虚构的,我给它们每一个都起了女人的名字。每个章节都提供机会,让我们对某个城市或泛指意义上的城市进行反思。这本书就像是由马可·波罗向忽必烈汗所作的一系列的旅行汇报。一些诗人和作家从马可·波罗的游记中获得启发,就像从一个幻想性的异域情调的舞台背景获得启发一样:柯勒律治在他的一首著名的诗中,卡夫卡在《皇帝的圣旨》 In Invisible City, people can not find a city they can recognize. All cities are fictional, and I give each of them a woman’s name. Each chapter offers the opportunity to reflect on a city or a city in a broad sense. This book is like a series of travel reports by Marco Polo to Kubla Khan. Inspired by Marco Polo’s travels, some poets and writers are inspired by a fantastic alien context: Coleridge, in one of his famous poems, “Imperial edict”