If on a winter's night a traveler...

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 5/5/06 at 2:59am

Has anyone read this post-modernist novel by Italo Calvino?

My final grades depends on my essay over this novel, and I find myself a bit lost.

I keep coming back to the notion of the role of the reader v. the role of the author, particularly concerning who is in control of the story. But for some reason, this thesis seems a little vague, and I can't really decide where to go with it and what to use as points from the novel.

Any other essay ideas or ways to improve this one?

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 5/5/06 at 2:36pm

bump...didn't think so

[Calvin]

Posted: 5/5/06 at 2:46pm

Sorry. I've read only The Path to the Nest of Spiders. It's a good read, but not helpful here.
eta: Oh yes, and Marcovaldo. That one I actually had to read in Italian, so my memories of it are not as vivid. Updated On: 5/5/06 at 02:46 PM

[touchmeinthemorning]

Posted: 5/5/06 at 2:48pm

The novel, for me, had a lot to do with linguistic reality and the role of reader/author shifts so often that it parallels the ability of a text to be created AND displaced simultaneously. We are always/already reconstructing others' reality as our own.

[Rentaholic2]

Posted: 5/5/06 at 3:26pm

that's a good thought, touchme