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The cynic would say that this is the book you right when you have the openings of ten novels you haven't been able to finish sitting in your drawer.
The impressed would say, "Wow, you can take ten unfinished novels and turn them into a work of art."
Call me Impressed. ...more
The impressed would say, "Wow, you can take ten unfinished novels and turn them into a work of art."
Call me Impressed. ...more

An experimental novel that switches stories and narrators with every chapter. Plots include a spy stuck in a small village when he misses an important meet-up and a man pursuing an evasive young woman. Some of the chapters are of novels the other characters are reading as they keep getting confused and picking up one book, then another.
I didn't finish this one. I read it for nearly a week, then gave up as I would get interested in one plot and then frustrated with the halting of that character's ...more
I didn't finish this one. I read it for nearly a week, then gave up as I would get interested in one plot and then frustrated with the halting of that character's ...more

Sep 15, 2008
Antonio Gallo
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"Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore" di Italo Calvino è un romanzo unico e affascinante che sfida le convenzioni letterarie tradizionali. Pubblicato nel 1979, il libro è diventato uno dei capolavori più celebri di Calvino, dimostrando la sua abilità nel creare un'opera narrativa sorprendente e innovativa.
Il romanzo si apre con una premessa intrigante: il lettore si trova a essere un protagonista, un lettore che si immerge in una storia solo per trovarsi interrotto dopo poche pagine. Questa in ...more
Il romanzo si apre con una premessa intrigante: il lettore si trova a essere un protagonista, un lettore che si immerge in una storia solo per trovarsi interrotto dopo poche pagine. Questa in ...more

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