Exploratory Writing on Calvino
Posted on September 11, 2005 at 8:51 pm by Mark SampleFor this exploratory assignment, write your own 2-page beginning of a “novel” which might appear in If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler. Try to model the form and style of Calvino’s truncated “novels.” Remember some of the common elements of all of the novels:
- Long, ambiguous titles
- Directly addressing the reader or referring to the act of reading
- Descriptions of what the novel is saying instead of the actual text of the novel
- Full of intrigue, including breaking off at a very suspenseful moment
- Tension between male and female characters
The assignment is due on Tuesday, September 13.