If on a winter's night a traveller, chapter 11

I'm finding it difficult to finish this book. It's changed a lot from the beginning, and doesn't exactly encourage deep immersion.

...was my original post, but as I kept reading:

This penultimate chapter, however, is absolutely worth it.

If on a winter's night a traveller, chapter 1

You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel, If on a winter's night a traveller. Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. Best to close the door; the TV is always on in the next room. Tell the others..."I'm reading!"

Here goes.

Catch-22, chapter 25

...perhaps he really had been signing Washington Irving's name to those letters he knew nothing about.

I read somewhere a description of this story as a roller-coaster.

It is.

The Writing Experiment, chapter 7

Postmodern novelists have tended to critique the conventions of the traditional novelist and the assumptions behind it.

What follows is a bullet-pointed list of how.

Now I get it.