Nick's review
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
Nick's review
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino
Nick's review
rating:
"If On A Winter's Night..." sustains the pleasure of beginning a new book throughout the entire book. This view of the book, as perpetual dawn, can be found between the covers of the "If On A Winter's Night..." along with other, I sometimes felt all possible other, criticisms of the book itself. Calvino's inventive instincts push the possibilities of certain techniques to the point of exhaustion, where his stories, like Borges's before him, come to ends both unexpected and, in hindsight, unavoidable. I enjoyed this book's (self)interest in Text, but mainly because Calvino has such a deft touch with language. As heady as his ability to create fractylic constellations of texts, readers and authors to layer and reveal many problems of textuality is, Calvino's sense of humor, beauty and even his sentimentality work to balance out a highly thoughtful piece of art.
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