How does Calvino use the frame story? Specifically, how is Calvino’s novel organized and where do you see the frame story at work? Why is Calvino using the frame story? How is the frame story meaningful to the work? Is Calvino’s use of the frame story similar to Borges’s? What are both authors writing about in using the frame story?

Please share your observations, opinions, and questions regarding the comparison of Calvino’s novel and Borges’s short stories.

Here are some guiding questions:

In Borges’s work, is the author ever the narrator (did the author ever create the narrator as himself as a protagonist in the story)? In Calvino’s work, is the author a protagonist in the story? And, if so, which protagonist: is there more than one narrator?

How does Calvino use the frame story? Specifically, how is Calvino’s novel organized and where do you see the frame story at work? Why is Calvino using the frame story? How is the frame story meaningful to the work? Is Calvino’s use of the frame story similar to Borges’s? What are both authors writing about in using the frame story?

Keeping in mind the quote from this week’s course notes (It is not the voice that commands the story, it is the ear. Italo Calvino): How would you describe the relationship between the main protagonists in the story: between the narrator(s) and the two readers? How do you personally relate to the character of the reader in the book? Do you feel the “I” in the narrator’s “you”?

Hint: Review the table of contents of the Calvino book. Read aloud the title of each chapter, one after the other in sequence. What do you discover? And how does this reveal, inform, reflect, the answers to your questions in this discussion thread and in your understanding of the book?

Please use at least 4 quotes (2 Borges & 2 Calvino) and provide page numbers.

Do not use the first person singular (“I”) or the second person (“you”) in your writing. You must write conclusively in the third person or the first person plural (“we”), because it is essential in critical writing to include some of the universe around you and not just your personal experience. We in critical comparative writing need to look beyond our nose to understand and express how our experience relates to our research and to present a truth about the world around us.

Borges
https://posthegemony.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/borges_collected-fictions.pdf

Calvino (Click Preview)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/mKBOehKRx1kC?hl=en&gbpv=0

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