If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

I absolutely loved Italo Calvino's If on a Winter's Night a Traveler. The way it is written allows the reader to feel as though the author is speaking directly to them. The detail makes the story extremely tangible and imaginable. Even though it was immediately at the beginning, I Calvino's description of reading a book while being saddled on a horse; it truly made me feel an essence of freedom. Within the story itself, I found particular interest in the lines, "I have already looked out of the front door onto the invisible square, and each time the wall of darkness has driven back inside this sort of illuminated limbo suspended between the two darknesses, the bundle of tracks and the foggy city. Where would I go? The city outside there has no name yet..."