Hi blog!! Hope we are all surviving midterm season o7 This week, the reading was If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino. It was tough picking between Calvino and Lispector, because on one side, I read Calvino’s The Cloven Viscount in high school and thought it was super cool, but on the […]
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What the freak man. ‘If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller’ was genuinely so trippy I am half confused but also very intrigued. To start off, i’ve never read something with this writing style before, my actions being narrated by someone else felt weirdly unsettling and kinda like a tutorial for how to feel/act. I […]
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It’s here! The last blog post of the semester! Thank you, dear reader, for reading all of my little blog posts. I hope you enjoyed my analysis and shared some similar thoughts, or thought differently about sections after reading my thoughts. I am honestly going to miss this blog, it was very fun to design […]
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Starting with “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler” by Italo Calvino is like going on an exhilarating literary rollercoaster that defies conventional narrative assumptions. Calvino transforms readers from passive spectators into active players within a multi-layered story, making this novel more than just a book. It’s an immersive experience. The novel’s unique capacity to […]
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‘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 […]
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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…
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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
You are now reading a blog post of “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” written by Italo Calvino. Now’s the time to chill without any distractions. Focus. Clear your mind to the best of your abilities, and perhaps find a place where you can read in peace and quiet. And prepare to reply to […]
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