Love, Misery, and the Stars in the Sky
If on a winter’s night a traveler is taking shape much like Calvino’s Invisible Cities, itself a riff on Scheherazade and the 1001 Nights. In all of these books there is a frame story that carries along through a series of vignettes. In traveler, the frame story is that “You” the reader have begun one book only … Continue reading
Book 1.2 If on a winter’s night a traveler
Reading about yourself reading the book. Calvino’s If on a winter’s night a traveler opens with an eye-widening phrase: “You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler.” That’s true, I think to myself. Then the author uses polite directives on how to read his book. … Continue reading
Letters Republic 