Subject: Re: Calvino's If on a winter's night
AntiUtopia@aol.com
Date: Wed Jan 26 2000 - 16:12:07 EST
I'll have to wholeheartedly Ditto any praise for Calvino. That particular novel...If on a winter's night a traveler . . . (the title is written like this because it's the first line of a novel) is wonderful, sick, metafiction that you'd do well to not read past the first chapter unless you want a headache (which you'll still think was worth it, probably). First time readers for Calvino would probably do better with Mr. Palomar, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves, or The Baron in the Trees (I prefer the preceding three to this one, though, but that's just me).
Calvino is almost our Homer :)
Jim
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