Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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I did not expect going into this novel, for it to be an interactive book, involving us as readers in the story. Also going into the book, I didn’t know what role we would play in the story as the writer of the book would continuously tell us what kind of reader we should be, […]
‘If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller’ by Italo Calvino is by far the most uniquely written book I have ever read. Although I cannot say I thoroughly enjoyed it as I found that the author’s tangents, as well as inserting himself into the short stories, caused me to get a headache lol. It is […]
Italo Calvino, author of ‘If on a winter’s night a traveler’, is probably the most unique book I have encountered till date. Although not a terribly hard read, the book entails a unique style of dual narration. The book begins with a rather direct, second-person narration of what the reader is doing and feeling while …
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“Whatever it may be, this is a novel where, once you have got into it, you want to go forward, without stopping” (Calvino, 76) You are about to begin reading my blog post on Italo Calvino’s novel, “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler.” Relax. Concentrate. The post-modernist narrative, published in 1979, is a captivating […]
I remember when I was looking through books to read I saw the blurb about If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino and I thought it sounded very unique. I don’t think “unique” begins to describe what this book is! It really pushes you, the readers (me!), expectations, I never knew quite […]
