/lit/ - Literature

>>21441320
Based book, now I am gonna read it

More like
>reading is a really complicated and interesting act that everyone just accepts without thought, lets see how we can exploit the form to explore that in fun and interesting ways while telling a story: The Book.

Calvino mogs Buzzati

More like bro... what if... what if I BROKE THE 4TH WALL and ACKNOWLEDGED WITHIN THE BOOK the existence of THE BOOK ITSELF and of THE READER??? bro... that would be like... really fucking crazy... : The Book

>>21441552
Basically, and it was a really good book. I've heard that Invisible Cities is even better and have it on my reading list for next year

>Boy, us readers huh?
Fucking insufferable.

>>21441552
>can't into meta

>>21441568
hmm. I liked the Baron in the trees but really couldn't get into this one, found it extremely on the nose and uninspired. To be fair I only read like 30 pages or so.

>>21441586
Metafags are self-satisfied cretins and deserve to be shot.

>>21441470
>>reading is a really complicated and interesting act that everyone just accepts without thought, lets see how we can exploit the form to explore that in fun and interesting ways while telling a story: The Book: Reddit Edition with bonus soi

The protagonist of the overarching plot is a fucking simp

Well yeah, it is good

>>21441615
But anon... the protagonist is (You)

If you ever discover that what you're seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life.

>>21441593
>>21441594
You probably need to go back to the basics and start over, metafiction is not that complicated, but it is considerably more than just breaking the fourth wall.

>>21441470
>reading is a really complicated and interesting act that everyone just accepts without thought, lets see how we can exploit the form to explore that in fun and interesting ways while telling a story: The Book.

>>21441568
If on a winters night is definitely much more interesting to read. It's very good

>>21441552
I thought it would be cheesy nonsense that'd get old fast as I finished the first chapter, but then he turns the second-person (You) into an actual character in its own right and made it legitimately fun and interesting.
My guess is that you skimmed either the beginning or the wikipedia article, scoffed smugly, and then didn't read the actual book, like you do with everything else.

>>21441835
>My guess is that you skimmed either the beginning or the wikipedia article, scoffed smugly, and then didn't read the actual book, like you do with everything else.
No, I read the first chapter, thought it was garbage, started the second but it wasn't improving so I dropped it.

>Editors and University professors are LE RETARD
Based and True.

>>21442172
Textbook filtered case right here I would say

>>21442172
>No, but yes I did exactly what you're accusing me of

>>21441579
>>Boy, us readers huh?

>>21441745
Correct, it is

>>21442287
Kekd

>>21441320
Based book, now I am gonna read it

>>21441320
Yes, it is.