Purpose of Italo Calvino's If on a winters night a traveller.

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English

 

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November 8, 2016

 

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It is considered postmodern because it seeks to over turn the dominant discourses in reading which are the authority of the traditional, silent, dictatorial author and the concept of a single objective meaning determined by the author. Calvino demystifies the authority of the author in the novel through the use of metafiction structure and the multiplicity of authors which make the reader aware and critical of the fiction and the author...
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Calvino presents reading as a subjective process through the multiplicity of reading and deliberate ambiguities which develop the idea of multiple interpretations. Calvino uses self-reflective metafiction to make the reader aware that the novel is purely artificial. If on a winter's night is a fictional novel about a Reader's attempt in finding closure of the fiction novels he has partly read...
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