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Who wrote the book lit? Zampano, Johnny, or Pelafina?

Who's the true author and who are just characters?

>> No.1921060
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>>1921059
the author is right on the freaking cover

>> No.1921062

>>1921060

You haven't read the book, have you?

>> No.1921063

Depends which "level" you mean.

The introduction and the sidenotes are obviously written by Johnny.

I'm not so sure about the main story (the scraps he found). A lot of hints can be found that indicate that Pelafina wrote at least parts of it.
Check the letters at the end. Also you can find a tick at the bottom right of one page. The tick was a secret code between Johnny and Pelafina if you remember.

>> No.1921066

Let me explain; I think Johnny Truant made the entire thing up, except for his bits. Zampano, The Navidson Record, even Pelafina's letters, are all written by Johnny as he loses his sanity.

Look at how Johnny's described as always telling stories; Lude constantly puts him on the spot, his mother comments on it in the Whalestone letters. The letters also have a message about Zampano, who his mother could never have known. So I think the entire book is Johnny writing through a psychotic episode.

>> No.1921069

>>1921066
What did he find in Zampano's flat then?

>> No.1921071

>>1921069

Nothing. Zampano never existed. Zampano is just another character.

>> No.1921072

>>1921071
Luda has to be made up too then.

>> No.1921073

>>1921063

I don't know if Johnny as a young child would have been able to write about the house like that. Could be possible that Pelafina created Zampano as an extension of her guilt, Zampano's hinted at losing a child and being a generally depressed sort of guy. And JT just adds those sidenotes and his sections.

>> No.1921074

>>1921072

Johnny's used real people in made up stories though, I think. Lude can still exist and he can just be the excuse Johnny has for "finding" Zampano.

It fits Lude's personalty of dragging Johnny into things.

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>>1921059
Here:

>> No.1921077

>>1921075

I've seen it, I don't think that Johnny as a child could be writing like that though. Doesn't seem to make much sense to me.

>> No.1921081

>>1921077
No no. Maybe this indicates that Pelafina wrote this part and he knows it. That's why he checked the page.

>> No.1921084

>>1921081

Alright, I see what you mean. Either way, I think we agree Zampano is a character? And he never existed?

>> No.1921091

>>1921084
I agree on that.
But I don't think he made up his mother.

>> No.1921102

>>1921091

I think he may have made up some of the letters, at the very least.

>> No.1921998

I thought that all of them were "real". Including Navidson. Just my opinion though.

>> No.1922009

George was just a metaphor for the rabbits