“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a Winters night a Traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others right away, “No I don’t want to watch TV!” Raise ...
I honestly gave this book a fair chance. After one third I was like: What on earth does this guy want? So, no thanks. Maybe another time. But I wouldn't count too much on that.
At the beginning of this book, I just loved it. It had a character that I've never seen in a book before - ME! Calvino includes the reader in his cast of characters and I was constantly amazed at how accurately he described what I was thinking as I was reading. He would say - and now you're think...
A novel with eleven--yes, eleven--beginnings, but only one ending, one perfect, lovely ending. Calvino plays with the relationship between reader and author, between two readers of the same work, between the author and the work, all while questioning what is real and true versus what is fake and fal...
Fascinating! This book explores what it means to read and write novels through a strange construction of several partial novels and Readers who are challenged to deal with tantalizingly incomplete tomes. It was all the funnier in that I started reading it just after a friend did, and it turns out th...
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