The protagonist of this novel meets Irnerio, a man who builds sculptures out of books, on his way to find Professor Uzzi-Tuzii. The professor reads him a story about a man on vacation who takes weather measurements for Mr. Kauderer in Petkwo. That book, Learning from the steep slope, is the unfinished work of Ukko Ahti, who wrote in the (*) Cimmerian language. The protagonist later visits a publisher who is thrilled to have someone talk about what they read and not what they wrote, Mr. Cavedagna, who blames the recent typesetting errors on the translator Ermes Marana, the former lover of Ludmilla, the Other Reader. For 10 points, name this novel by Italo Calvino alternating between the beginnings of fictional novels
The protagonist of this novel meets Irnerio, a man who builds sculptures out of books, on his way to find Professor Uzzi-Tuzii. The professor reads him a story about a man on vacation who takes weather measurements for Mr. Kauderer in Petkwo. That book, Learning from the steep slope, is the unfinished work of Ukko Ahti, who wrote in the (*) Cimmerian language. The protagonist later visits a publisher who is thrilled to have someone talk about what they read and not what they wrote, Mr. Cavedagna, who blames the recent typesetting errors on the translator Ermes Marana, the former lover of Ludmilla, the Other Reader. For 10 points, name this novel by Italo Calvino alternating between the beginnings of fictional novels and a story with a protagonist of you, the Reader.
The protagonist of this novel meets Irnerio, a man who builds sculptures out of books, on his way to find Professor Uzzi-Tuzii.
If on a {winter's night} a {traveler}