December Books Update 1
Some Books I read earlier this year **** 1. If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler The main character and narrator of this novel is you, the reader, trying to read Italo Calvino’s book If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler . However the copy is misprinted, repeating pages (the sixteen page signatures have been bound in). Returning to the bookstore you encounter Ludmilla, who has had the same problem. Getting new copies they are different entirely. Attempting to track down the original you discover more openings to books, translated, swapped, plagiarised, faked, uncovering an interlocking set of international conspiracies to hide and reveal texts. Sometimes reflecting on these sections are the extracts from the books being read. These are parts of different books, from different genres, attempting different things. A walk through a world where publishing and books are fallible things that can go wrong or be made wrong or be entirely obscured, yet still the text exists. Read ...
