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[Anonymous No.23045477]

My guy really just said 'fuck it'.

[Anonymous No.23045488]

>>23045477
kek. almost as bad as "hooray for the brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky"

[Anonymous No.23045495]

>>23045477
lmao dude was high on farts when he wrote this

[Anonymous No.23045497]

>>23045477
what's the point of this thread? did you accidentally flip to the last page or something? the whole book is like that. good book btw, one of my favorites.

[Anonymous No.23045500]

>>23045497
its like "you, the reader, were gay all along" but unironic

[Anonymous No.23045503]

>>23045477
beautiful. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.23045507]

>>23045477
It is pretty much the perfect ending for Italo Calvino's new novel; If on A Winter's Night; A Traveler, works wonderfully.
>>23045497
Only half the book is like that.

[Anonymous No.23045514]

>>23045507
>Only half the book is like that.
Yeah from start to finish every other chapter. You can just call that "the whole book".

[Anonymous No.23045517]

>Last line: And you say, 'Just a moment, I've almost finished If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino.'"
>The ending, in which we the reader and the Reader declare that we are about to finish the book we are reading is perfect. How else could such a novel end? I definitely recommend If on a winter's night a traveler
>If nothing else, it should be noted that this book was good enough and thought provoking enough to break me out of the 9+ months of not writing up my thoughts after finishing a novel. If that isn't a good sign I don't know what is.

[Anonymous No.23045523]

>>23045497
>what's the point of this thread?
Oh shit, I didn't notice the shortage of Biblical and Hegelian slop today.
The ending just caught me slightly off guard even though I should have seen it coming. It made me laugh in the moment and I enjoyed the book for what it was. It's a fitting ending but, out of context, it's no better than 'it was all a dream'. The penultimate chapter was also hastily written, imo. It all lost direction in the latter portion.

[Anonymous No.23045542]

>>23045500
There are two wolves inside me. One of them is gay. The other one is gay. I am phone.

[Anonymous No.23045587]

>Some important works of fiction deserve another look, another read, even some forty years after their original publication. Such is Italo Calvino’s tour de force of a novel—published originally in Italian as Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore in 1979
>one of the most creative works about reading and writing fiction that I have ever read.

>The book begins with
“You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino’s new novel, If on a winter’s night a traveler.
>His narrator leads You Reader into a bookstore to buy the book (this book)
>The scene in the bookstore describes how You Reader selects the book to be read, picking the book (this book) up
>On page 9 the narrator says to the reader, who has already read almost the whole first, introductory chapter, “So here you are now, ready to attack the first lines of the first page.”
>The second chapter has the same title as that of the book as a whole—If on a winter’s night a traveler—and it actually does describe a winter’s night and a traveler....We start with a train station, with steam from a locomotive clouding things over.
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>Chapter Twelve is a Coda chapter. Here it is in its entirety.
>“Now you are man and wife, Reader and Reader. A great double bed receives your parallel readings. Ludmilla closes her book, turns off her light, puts her head back against the pillow, and says, ‘Turn off your light, too. Aren’t you tired of reading?’ And you say, ‘Just a moment, I’ve almost finished If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino.’”

>So ends the anti-novel than may be the greatest twentieth century book ever written on the theme of readers and reading of fiction.

[Anonymous No.23045612]

Bravo! Bravo!
Italo Calvino! Bravo!
Via Italia!
Pax Romana!

[Anonymous No.23045701]

Calvino was the most translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death in 1985

His best-known works include

the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952–1959)
>The Cloven Viscount (1952), The Baron in the Trees (1957), and The Nonexistent Knight (1959).

the Cosmicomics ("Le cosmicomiche") collection of short stories (1965)
>Each story takes a scientific theory, and builds an imaginative story around it. An always-extant being called Qfwfq explicitly narrates all of the stories save two. Every story is a memory of an event in the history of the universe.

Invisible Cities (1972)
>The book is framed as a conversation between the Mongol emperor Kublai Khan, and Marco Polo. The majority of the book consists of brief prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities that are narrated by Polo, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience generally.

If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).
>Calvino stated If on a winter's night a traveler was "clearly" influenced by the writings of Vladimir Nabokov.
>Author David Mitchell described himself as being "magnetised" by the book from its start when he read it as an undergraduate, but on rereading it, felt it had aged and that he did not find it "breathtakingly inventive" as he had the first time, yet does stress that "however breathtakingly inventive a book is, it is only breathtakingly inventive once" – with once being better than never.
>Sting named his 2009 album If on a Winter's Night... after the book

[Anonymous No.23045707]

>>23045477
kek I think it's often clumsy and difficult to write something meta but this was done well, I liked it a lot.

[Anonymous No.23045713]

>>23045477
Is that the ending?

[Anonymous No.23045726]

>>23045701
Invisible Cities was impressively imaginative yet at the same time shallow. It hardly stayed with me at all. Calvino in it made me think of him as another Borges, but with less to say.

[Anonymous No.23046544]

more like Italo CalKINO amirite