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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino
It was a good book in part but very strange. It took me awhile to finish it, but I don't regret taking it on. I was curious about Postmodernism and this book satisfied my quest for knowledge. I even made a postmodern painting in light of Calvino's classic. If I'm right about this If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is many things to many readers. Some see it as dis-assorted gibberish and other's maybe with a larger world view see it as consistent with Existentialist views, and creative in holding the reader in a kind of perplexing state of confusion never really explaining the reason we are reading or even existing for that matter. What I took away from the book was a sense of feeling that made me smile to myself as if I had just unlocked a puzzle and the understanding that we are all unique. Every reader different in the perception of one man's genius. I was entertained not prattled on. I add the meaning to this book and the reader is the star of the plot.
Merged review:
It was a good book in part but very strange. It took me awhile to finish it, but I don't regret taking it on. I was curious about Postmodernism and this book satisfied my quest for knowledge. I even made a postmodern painting in light of Calvino's classic. If I'm right about this If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is many things to many readers. Some see it as dis-assorted gibberish and other's maybe with a larger world view see it as consistent with Existentialist views, and creative in holding the reader in a kind of perplexing state of confusion never really explaining the reason we are reading or even existing for that matter. What I took away from the book was a sense of feeling that made me smile to myself as if I had just unlocked a puzzle and the understanding that we are all unique. Every reader different in the perception of one man's genius. I was entertained not prattled on. I add the meaning to this book and the reader is the star of the plot.
Merged review:
It was a good book in part but very strange. It took me awhile to finish it, but I don't regret taking it on. I was curious about Postmodernism and this book satisfied my quest for knowledge. I even made a postmodern painting in light of Calvino's classic. If I'm right about this If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is many things to many readers. Some see it as dis-assorted gibberish and other's maybe with a larger world view see it as consistent with Existentialist views, and creative in holding the reader in a kind of perplexing state of confusion never really explaining the reason we are reading or even existing for that matter. What I took away from the book was a sense of feeling that made me smile to myself as if I had just unlocked a puzzle and the understanding that we are all unique. Every reader different in the perception of one man's genius. I was entertained not prattled on. I add the meaning to this book and the reader is the star of the plot.