Chapter 4

Uzzi-Tuzii is reading the "chapter" "the reader" just read to a group of people, im thinking its a small group of people bc his office isnt that big and the reader, i, can easily notice when lumilla arrives. we find out that Leanig From a Steep Slope was written before the author killed themself. it was found along side other unfinished and unpublished works of theirs. i bet that some of the other chapters have a similar backstory to them.

i know how im going to to my shadow box. i have a really cool idea. ill probably post an image or two up over the course of working on it.

leaning from a steep slope

Its written in a very similar style to a journal. The character is drawing conclusions and ends to different and completely unrelated events and “signs”. They have a very mathematical/scientific way of looking at things. I must say that italo calvino is an incredible writer. He has written all of these first chapters with a different style.

im not sure exactally what you are looking for with the blogs for the "chapters" story/plot lines. im hoping that this is enough.

Chapter 3

More of the "Chapters" story is being unraveled. the last chapter that was read was at first thought to be from a Cimmerian book, but it just shares names because the actuall Cimmerian book was never translated.

i find it interesting that there is a character who has learnt how to not read.

Outside the town of Malbork

I am begining to hate these first chapters. Some books start slow, typically books one would read for school, but all these chapters grab my attention imediatly. i wish that they were actually real books. I am not exactally sure what i am supposed to do with these chapters, because they arent exactally all that post modern. The narration does mention the reader a few times but besides that i dont find it to be post modern, although the first paragraph was in the same style as the chapter before.

This chapter reminded me of "Translations" by Brian Friel.

Chapter 2

i dont really get the whole thing about the page numbers, but i guess that it was required for there to be any kind of story for that chapter. we find out some thing important(well it is a post modern book so it might not be) in this chapter. we find out that the reader/narrator is a male. but thats all we know.

If on a winter's night a stanger

I like that the book tells you how it begins. the picture on the cover complements it fantastically.
so i guess the character, "I", is waiting for some thing to happen, or is not waiting for not nothing to not happen, or not. the naration jumps between first person to omnipitent third. the way that Italo transitions between them is crazy. its in his head then its in yours. i love the last line on page 19; "first one or first the other; but what does that signify?"

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! why did the chapter have to end? it was just getting to be an amazing plot.

Italo Calvino chapter 1?

this book is fun. so far its just telling me how to read the book. i have to say thats a fun way to start a post-modern book. the book store description is absolutly brilliant. the descriptions of the other books is really funny.
i like that the book tells you what you should do before you read the book. i like that at the end of several paragraphs it ends with an equivalent to "or not". the way that the chapters are numbered is really post modern.