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humanodon  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Mute feature: from team hubski

I just have no idea who is who. I just finished If On a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, so I guess I should be used to it . . .





Meriadoc  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oh man that's been on my list forever. How is it?

humanodon  ·  3745 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hey, did you get around to reading this book yet?

humanodon  ·  3786 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's like a French movie from the 1960's, kind of. You should read it so we can compare notes on it. It's not a novel in the conventional sense and it doesn't land on major chords, so to speak. It's sort of akin to The Unbearable Lightness of Being in that the reader is aware of the artifice and construction of the book around the experience of the reader. I'd like to read something else by Calvino to get a better bead on him as a writer.