24.9.06

Blind Atlas

I finished reading Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities for my comparative lit class this week and started Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude. Both works deal with imaginary worlds: 55 cities in Calvino's case and Marquez' fictional Columbian town of Macondo. While doing some research on Calvino, I stumbled across the bizarre Blind Atlas, a website that allows you to "explore imaginary villages, cities, libraries, worlds, and universes without leaving the discomfort of your workstation."

If you've read and enjoyed works by Jorge Luis Borges, Italo Calvino, and Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman, take a gander at Blind Atlas.

No comments: