Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
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Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter’s night and stops at places w…
Posted in Blogs, Calvino | Tagged with captivating, confusing, destroyed books, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Lortaria, Ludmilla, Morana, pattern, reader
If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino was at first one of the most confusing and frusturating reads I’ve ever experienced but after awhile actually become very enjoyable and interesting. After reading the author’s note, it should’ve been my first sign that this writing style was going to be something new and […]
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Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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The narrative perspective of this book was completely unexpected to me, and this is the first time I’ve read a book where the author narrates from a second-person point of view, which definitely gave me a very strong gateway to connect with the author. This was a very new and creative reading experience for me […]
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