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If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino

The book starts out in second person (you are told that you’re about to start reading Italo Calvino’s novel If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler), and then you get the next chapter, which is the first chapter of a fictional book. In the third chapter, the “you” that isn’t you is dismayed to discover that the rest of the pages of the book you’ve (he’s? she’s?) been reading are blank…