Nian Liu

"If On a Winter Night A Traveler" Ch 3-4

This story has a very unique style to it. There are conversations without quotations that we normally see in other books, and the stories keep changing and also the focus of the story also changes. As the reader I find it really hard to focus on one problem introduced in the chapter because another problem or scenario plays right after. For an example you read about the narrator hunting for the continuation of Zwida Ozkart but at the same time Ludmilla, her sister, the professor, and a guy that refuses to read are introduced at once and each has a specific story that brings me out of focus on Zwida Ozkart. The characters would talk about it in short sentences but they dont talk about it in depth. This book is takes a lot of rereading to understand and sometimes even when I reread I don't really understand the text. There seems to be too much going on and too much thinking in every chapter, but I guess thats what makes this book interesting because it's up to us the reader to see what the narrator's really thinking.

1) Whats the significance of these stories that come up every chapter?
2) Is the story writen by Ahti really never existed or it was just never found?