/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22976518]

I'm struggling to understand this book. It's just a collection of short stories without endings, tied together through a series of vignettes? Are the Cimmerians mentioned throughout supposed to be the irl ancient Cimmerians or has Calvino just applied the name to a fictional race of people? Everything about it feels like an inside joke.

[Anonymous No.22976915]

>>22976518
Super boring book

[Anonymous No.22976938]

>>22976518
It's about reading, plotfag.

[Anonymous No.22977016]

>he's trying to read Italo Calvino's new novel but a could of stupid has obscured the page
The parts of the narrative in the second person is the frame story and the primary narrative containing the plot and is informed by third person narrative sections. You probably should start over and play closer attention, you clearly missed a great deal, may also want to read up on metafiction and make sure you understand how they work since it is fairly dependent on the metafictional aspects.

[Anonymous No.22977021]

>>22977016
>but a could of stupid
lol. Cloud, not could. I kinda like the phrase "a could of stupid.

[Anonymous No.22977153]

>>22976518
>Everything about it feels like an inside joke.
That's a pretty good way to put it honestly. It's an inside joke for readers about reading.

[Anonymous No.22977165]

>>22977153
It's funny, the only people I've known IRL who were filtered by it, weren't avid readers or were either genre trash babbies or total spastics so locked down in 'classics' that they didn't get it. That was maybe 4 people out of quite a few, I'm surprised how many people have read it.

[Anonymous No.22977853]

>>22977016
You've merely stated the obvious in an attempt to sound erudite, unsuccessfully. The book is an outdated experiment at this point, down there with Our Ancestors as one of the weaker Calvino works.

[Anonymous No.22977859]

>>22976518
It gives Calvino's view on what reading is and should be or could be. It all makes sense at the end but even before that you should be able to figure it out. He DOES say something with this book.
>>22977165
Same in my experience, worst is when they recite the loser's mantra by complaining about it being shit lol.

[Anonymous No.22977914]

>>22977853
Explaining what OP clearly missed in to help him is an attempt to sound erudite? I think you are the one attempting to sound erudite.

[Anonymous No.22977999]

>>22976938
>>22977165
>>22977859
filtered

[Anonymous No.22978015]

>>22977999
>no u
This doesn't work when you are WRONG. Gonna rape your mum btw, problem?

[Anonymous No.22978107]

>>22976518
Its a collection of unfinished stories set around a plot that is basically about storytelling itself. The major theme is that stories for the reader have a beginning middle and end but in reality everything is so weaved together that any aspect of a story is tied to everything else in the world, and so the idea is that any story can start anywhere and go anywhere from there and keep going forever, so in a way it doesnt matter that the stories arent finished, they never could have been anyway. It is written pretty vaguely though. Idk, I like it. I would probably have loved it had I read it ten years ago. But it’s a cute book with some guys and originality.

[Anonymous No.22978128]

>>22978015
seethe

[Anonymous No.22978156]

>>22977859
It's a real shame too, it's not super deep but he is saying something about reading. I feel like Calvino is misunderstood as trying to be some deep intellectual or mystic when all he did was have some clever fun that's slightly elevated and catered to a certain audience who sees the world that way.

[Anonymous No.22978288]

>>22977914
You literally didn't explain anything, you just stated the obvious and helped no one.
>start over [...] you missed a great deal
>read up on metafiction
Great explanation.

[Anonymous No.22978346]

Lel Calvinocucks are such crybabies.

[Anonymous No.22978396]

>>22978346
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