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Awesome Ergodic Literature

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Multiple paths

If on a winter's night a traveler

Italo Calvino, 1979

Second-person chapters about “you, the Reader” alternate with the openings of ten different novels, each broken off; the reader assembles the frame story across the interruptions.

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Multiple paths
Author-defined alternate orders or reading routes.

Details

First published
1979
Original language
Italian
Medium
Print
Needs the physical object
No. Any edition works.

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