Victoria Gornopolskaya

Reading these next few chapters, I realized this book illustrates the reader's-response theory. This novel follows a struggling reader who is trying to piece together a book that may not even exist. The reader as well as Ludmilla are trying to experience literature though it turned into a much more interactive journey than they may have expected. It is clear that the stories in this novel do not relate to each other as of now. The concept of the novel may be the thing that ties it all together. This is about the performance of literature and bringing in our own experiences to try to fill in the vast gaps left by Calvino. Though this scattered novel had been causing us much confusion, I believe it does this intentionally. I am realizing how much we all strive for a perfect novel and demand to read the way we are used to; the way a novel should be organized. At this point we struggle through the book along with the people in the novel in order to truly share an experience.
Questions:
Will the reader ever find satisfaction with this reading experience?
Will the reader (I) ever find satisfaction with this reading experience?