/lit/ - Literature

The MC is literally me

alright, I won't lie I'm like 40 pages in confused to fuck. Just want to ask whether the story chapters carry on the same way as the first two, or if there is some kind of a narrative you can piece together by reading on? I must say though I'm really loving the prose and style that Calvino brings to it, and it can be pretty fucking funny when it wants to. Also the scene with the Reader in the bookstore talking to the Other Reader was absolutely tremendous, iss like fucking reading /lit/ personified.

Don Quixote is simple to read and always fun.
Italo Calvino's "If on a winter's night a traveler" is also really cool, structurally-wise, and not hard at all (unlike some of his other metaphorically denser books). Would also recommend his essay on reading the classics, it's interesting to see how literary big guys like him also have the same feeling you're having now, sometimes.