This work's first chapter opens with a discussion of how to deal with annoying people who watch tv in the next room while others are trying to read, and instructs "relax" and "concentrate."
In this novel, the phrase "Zeno of Elea" is used as a code, and a character in this novel tells a story about the disguised Harun al-Rashid being chosen by lot to kill Harun al-Rashid. The protagonist of this work goes to see Uzzi-Tuzii, a professor of Bothno-Ugaric Languages and Literature, and another character in this work uses a spy-glass in his Swiss chalet to watch a woman reading. That character, the novelist Silas Flannery, is the target of (*) forgeries by supposed translator Ermes Marana. The protagonist encounters the sisters Lotaria and Ludmilla in this novel, whose narrative is interrupted by chapters like Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo and Outside the Town of Malbork. This work's first chapter opens with a discussion of how to deal with annoying people who watch tv in the next room while others are trying to read, and instructs "relax" and "concentrate." FTP, identify this work whose main character is actually the Reader, a novel famously written substantially in the second person by Italo Calvino.
In this novel, the phrase "Zeno of Elea" is used as a code, and a character in this novel tells a story about the disguised Harun al-Rashid being chosen by lot to kill Harun al-Rashid.
{If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler} [or {Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore}]