If On A Winter's Night A Traveller

The way If On A Winter's Night A Traveler is written is really interesting. The author uses second person throughout the book, and the book is divided into two parts: a part that talks about the story of If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, another part is where Calvino talks to the readers about what he/she will be reading for the next chapter. Interestingly enough, the second part is very detail-oriented: Calvino puts quite a lot of concentration on the minor things about the readers, the readers physical state, their psychological activities, and their interpretation of the literature.

Calvino talks about how he wants his readers to be disinterested in the book and not to purposely find a meaning during the course of reading. As a writer like him that have conversation in the book with the readers and instruct the readers are what to read and how to read, having that kind of readers is the optimal choice.

The book also has a lot of pauses and discontinuous thoughts. It is almost like Calvino is purposely making his readers to lose interest in reading about the story of the book. The narrator's voice tends to interrupt in the middle of a thread of thought or a scenario.

As a believer of the philosophy of "nothing matters in life", Calvino did not give the book a very prominent meaning. Instead, his beliefs are scattered, and be traced by reading through the novel and his ideologies are buried in between the lines.