As cidades invisíveis que habitam os signos

Abstract

The book Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino, dialogues explicitly with Il milione (Travels of marco polo), attributed to Rustician of Pisa. Over seven centuries separate these two accounts. Despite being the first a product of the imagination and the second a text allegedly historical, are in line for permanent enchantment that travel has on the human being, becoming a recurring theme in literature, from Homer. The act of traveling has changed. The technology shortened the time and downed distances, reduced hazards and increased comfort. Today, with your hands free rein and rudder, the mind also is set free. Body presumably safe and well accommodated, the man began to undertake no less immersive adventure: a trip inside. Taking the medium of books milione Il (Travels of Marco Polo) and Invisible Cities, it is proposed to this article reiterate the dialogue between these works, written at different times and contexts, valuing the symbol that reframes the city and its mazes, picture so stubborn in Jorge Luis Borges, who just in the poem "Labyrinth" urges: "Do not expect the rigor of thy way, that stubbornly forks in another, has an end." (Borges, 1970, P 15). That the works are diluted in other to renew them, reafimá them or reinterpret them is what we seek to verify.