Well Done to Italo Calvino's Great Idea
Hi, Everyone. I hope you are all doing well. When I started this novel, I thought it would be just an ordinary story. As I started reading it, I thought it might be about this man who gets on a train on a winter's night and stops at places where he may have some adventures as he is a traveller and stops at a bar at his first stop. That's how much titles have significance on how we view and think about the novel, as discussed in the last class with Jon Beasley Murray when reviewing The Time of the Doves. However, as I read, I needed clarification on this book because I was confused when I got to chapter two. The story had stopped. I enjoyed the beginning and how it referred to us as the reader. I appreciated that instead of moving right into the story. It makes us more drawn to the story, and we learn how it is structured. As I got to chapter two, I realized that the narrator told me that the book the reader is reading (not the book we are reading) repeats every 30 pages, not