The blog for SUNY Binghamton's Spring'09 COLI 214B 02 Literature and Society Class. Chapter summaries, analyses and discussion of prescribed texts written by students.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Nian Liu

"If on a winter night a traveler..." Ch 4-6

As I read more chapters in this book, the questions keep piling up. Story after story I read and never get to finish, I feel the agony that the main character is feeling. My whole perception of "innocent" reading fades away and now I'm tangled in this novel after novel hell. I feel that the author is purposely doing this to again bring the relationship between reader and narrator together and that's the main focus of his writing. It's not really the story that is important but the form of style of writing and craftiness that should be credited for.

Questions:
1) Will the main character find all these books in the end, or will he be left hanging like we all are right now!!?
2) Is Ludmilla and the main character going to end up no wanting to read ever again? Like how Irnerio chose to not look at words.
3) Why doesn't Irnorio like to read? Is it because he too was caught up with this repetition of non-finished novels?

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