During last month's discussion of The Ghost Writer
, we couldn't help but focus on the stories within the story because they play such a large role in the progression of the overall plot. "Seraphina" and "The Revenant" are written by Viola Hatherley, an author who didn't exist until John Harwood invented her. Other past BookBlog selections also contain stories within the story. If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by Italo Calvino [May 2004] refers to novels that never were. And Cervantes' Don Quixote
[November/December 2002] would have stayed home if it were not for tales of knights errant and their noble adventures.
Keeping track of virtual books requires a virtual library:
The Invisible Library - The Invisible Library is a collection of books that only appear in other books. Within the library's catalog you will find imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished, and unfound.
You won't get to read any of the books cataloged in The Invisible Library, but it's a fun web site nonetheless. For book geeks everywhere.
