While there is no doubt that this is an excellently crafted polyphonic novel that successfully leads the reader to a creative (literally, not figuratively) reading process, I did not particularly enjoy the subject material. If there were scales both for "liking" a book and for "quality reading experience," this book would rank much more highly on the second, despite being a bit tricky to follow at times.

The major points of interest to me throughout the reading of this book were the diverse and complicated mess of characters that weave their way through the story, the imposition placed on the reader to read actively, and the frequent occurrences of mise en abîme created by the use of dialogue and multiple narrators who discuss literature in general, the writing process, and the book itself.