The book is really about the experience of reading and writing and about what a book is and what it is for. The book is pure postmodern literature, which is not really my thing, although I found this book enjoyable.It is told in the second person and the reader or you is the main character. During...
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler...Italo Calvino opens up his masterpiece in the second person, addressing and engaging the reader in a very direct way; a powerful, uncompromising way: Here you are - the reader; and here I am - the protagonist; the author is somewhere else, as impertinent to the st...
A modern classic in the metafiction genre! I read this book as Italo Calvino's meditations on the process of reading and writing. Some three-fourths of the way into the book, Calvino seems to confess how he came about writing this book in the first place. Throughout the book, he employs an imaginati...
This is a book about a guy who's trying to meet another guy on a train but the trains are late or whatever so they don't meet up and then there's a lady. It was okay but then my Kindle sample chapter was over and I got distracted.Well, first of all, if you don't know anything about this book, don't ...
I *adored* this book. Funny, clever without being condescending and with a heart so big it envelops you with every page.Very rarely do you come across a novel that actually understands the Reader (note the capitalisation there) but this spoke to me from page one.It's not just a 'love story' between ...
Calvino's take on postmodern literature not only reads like a curious, clever and always intelligent literary experiment, but is also a compendium on the current it represents.Videoreview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwfgyxr5Rug&feature=youtu.be
This book was mind-blowing. Calvino brings down the 4th wall with a vengeance, but at times I felt it was too much and got tired in parts. It's a good read, but not one for reading before bed, or you'll lose track.
I had more fun writing my review of this highly acclaimed book than I obviously had reading it. There was one highlight in the book for me, and in the process of suffering through the majority of this ordeal I also got a title for a new short film I am working on. But all in all a-not-so-great of ti...
Putting into exact words all the feelings this book evokes in the reader, is a task not just tremendously challenging but virtually impossible to execute.After getting through the first few pages, I felt like Naomi Watts in The Ring, being pulled against her will into the world of the creepy video b...
I'm still trying to figure out what I think about this book. I'm glad I read it, I can claim it's done, but I doubt I would recommend it to anyone else.It's confusing and disjointed (on purpose) and it does move fairly quickly. I think it would make a great independent comedy film.
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