Question

The narrator of one of these works becomes “convinced that the world wants to tell me something” after seeing a hand thrust out of the window of a prison. According to his diary, the author of one of these works completed it by viewing a woman reading through a spyglass at a Swiss chalet. Proper nouns such as Pëtkwo and Kauderer are the only substantive similarities between one of these works set at a seaside observatory and another set outside the town of (*) Malbork. According to Silas Flannery, the similarities between two of these works (10[1])are due to the confusion created by the translator Ermes Marana. (10[1])A professor of the Cimmerian language translates one of these books for a character who searches for these books with Ludmilla. For 10 points, identify these books read by you, the reader in an Italo Calvino novel. ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: the novels in If on a winter’s night, a traveler [accept books or texts or stories in place of “novels”; accept the even chapters of If on a winter’s night, a traveler]
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