After reading the first 90 pages of Italo Calvino’s, “If On A Winter Night’s A Traveler,” I came to the understanding that the novel was about a bunch of smaller stories packed into it. During our class discussion on Tuesday, we talked about this and how Calvino is affectively using different types of writing-styles to engage and keep us intrigued and interested. At the beginning of every chapter and story, he started off with something different that eventually lead us — the reader — to understand that we were reading about new characters. At the start of page 91, however, we the readers, quickly realize that we are talking about characters who we’ve already met. It is at this point that I realized all the short stories we were reading — If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler, Outside the Town of Malbork, Leaning from the Steep Slope etc. — were part of the novels that the narrator and Ludmilla were reading and missing the endings to their stories. Maybe I was the only one to pick up on this so late in the book, but I found it to be another effective way to lure us into the novel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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