If on a Winter's Night a Traveller

[andrew walser]

      If On A Winter's Night A Traveller is brilliant -- but Invisible Cities is probably Calvino's best work, and The Baron in the Trees has a sort of Voltairish charm. 
        (Oh -- and t zero and cosmicomics will probably please those who go to Pynchon for the science . . .)
   
                                             Andrew Walser
   
         And Polo said:  "The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together.  There are two ways to escape suffering it.  The first is easy for many:  accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it.  The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension:  seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of the inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space."
   
                                                               -- from Invisible Cities

        
  Ya Sam <takoitov at hotmail.com> wrote:
  Just finished. Awesome book. Some pages reminded me of some pages of AtD. 
Has anyone read it?

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