Round 1: Tossup 17

In the first chapter, the main character of this novel moves through stacks containing “Books Too Expensive Now” and “Books Made For Purposes Other Than Reading.” A character in this novel meets his love-interest's sister while on a mission to pursue a counterfeiter in the country of Ataguitania (“ah-TAG-wih-TAH-nee-uh”). In this novel, a suitcase swap at a train station is initiated (-5[1])through the code phrase “Zeno of Elea.” Professor (*) Uzzi-Tuzzi (10[2])recounts a story titled “Leaning from a steep slope” in this novel, in which every odd chapter advances the relationship between Ludmilla and You, the reader. For 10 points, name this second-person postmodern novel by Italo Calvino. ■END■ (10[2])

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