Dan Bush

Italio Calvino has written this novel in a way that speaks to the conformity within the literary world. He has shown that the true intention of a novel is to involve and capture the imagination of it's readers. In this part of the book he has demonstrated the use of the third person perspective and the ways in which this point of view may alter perception it still is in the end the reader that gives the story life and the narative its meaning. He has continually attempted to demonstrate the ability of the reader to shape and form a text into whatever the reader needs that text to be. In a way this novel is his thesis on the ways in which the world of literature and the world the readers themselves live in can be connected, if the author of a narrative leaves the confines of conventional construction of a novel. In this way the reader is more able to make the text his/her own. He has once again show that literature is more about perspective and freeing the mind than forcing a persons imagination to be shaped by the authors conformity. He has allowed his readers to become a part of the novel and in some ways they shape the narrative. He has compiled a series of readings and adapted them to show the ways in which us the reader can make, and have made narratives our own and escape to a literary realm that is open to some extent open to "interpretation".