Thursday, September 14, 2023

Novels and theories

Silas Flannery meets a reader.

Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler, trans. William Weaver (New York: Harcourt, 1981).

Also from this novel
The formula (Shades of AI)

comments: 2

Fresca said...

Substitute “life” for “my books”, eh?

Michael Leddy said...

Interesting — the opposite of solipsism.

So much of “theory” in lit now seems to me a matter of finding what you expect to find. (I could go on, but I’ll stop myself.)