storytelling

Tales Within Tales in Italo Calvino’s ‘If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler’

“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 […]

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Calvino; I too got vertigo while reading this book

I’ll start off by saying that without a doubt I LOVED Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler. It felt new, it felt refreshing, it felt different. In one of my other classes, we have been discussing the concepts … Continue reading →

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Black Shack Alley; a story about struggle and resilience

Joseph Zobel’s Black Shack Alley was an incredibly moving and eye-opening story that I thoroughly enjoyed. Zobel does a really good job at eliciting emotions throughout the book as I felt myself becoming more and more attached to the story … Continue reading →

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