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Italo Calvino · 1979
A metafictional novel that directly addresses the reader as 'you,' inviting them into a narrative experience that plays with the conventions of reading and storytelling. Calvino's innovative work blurs the boundary between reader and protagonist through second-person narration.
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What this book knows
Reading is desire: every book promises completion and withholds it, making the reader's hunger the only true story.
mind-and-cognition
You fling the book on the floor—let sentences, words, morphemes, phonemes gush forth, beyond recomposition into discourse.
IWNT-RC-019Reading is an operation without object; or that its true object is itself. The book is an accessory aid, or even a pretext.
IWNT-RC-186A space full of stories that perhaps is simply my lifetime, where you can move in all directions, always finding stories.
IWNT-RC-081self-and-identity
Books can be a defense to keep the outside world at a distance, a dream like a drug, or bridges cast toward the outside.
IWNT-RC-106For the writer who wants to annul himself to give voice to what is outside him, two paths open: the unique book, or all books.
IWNT-RC-134desire
A tension on not losing any potential, exploiting the accumulation of the other's desire in order to multiply one's own charge.
IWNT-RC-115Illuminates
6 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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