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This is a book, most of all, about reading I believe; and for the writer, a book about how a book is read should be of utmost value.  Know thine enemy.  Know your audience. Back in reader mode of Chapter … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’d noticed this before but there’s an instance here that illustrates how Calvino touches on so many areas within one fell swoop of his pen: Every moment you discover there is a new character, you don’t know how many people … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Chapter 2 (!) brings us back into the reading mode of the book, that is, the narrator addressing us as ‘you’ and telling us how to go about returning Calvino’s book because it appears to be a printer’s error in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I know what the term means in the reality/fiction barrier between narrative and reader, and when it is breached to bring the reader into the story.  This Calvino does to a degree, not by inviting the reader completely into the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Never has an author or a book–at least any that I have read–involved my full attention quite so much not out of difficulty but rather out of an intimacy Calvino forms with the reader who is willing to accept his … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’d read Chapter 1 of this about a month ago when I thought I couldn’t make it through Miller’s Topic of Cancer.  I put it aside when my stubborn nature wouldn’t let me give up on Miller. Tonight I read … Continue reading → Continue reading →