# From Constraints to Conundrums: Rules in Puzzle Literature  ## Metadata - Author: [[Martino Manca]] - Full Title: From Constraints to Conundrums: Rules in Puzzle Literature - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Document Note: yeah this is cool. 5/5 - URL: https://readwise.io/reader/document_raw_content/360551267 ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > A final note on *genre* : many contemporary instances belong to mystery or, more precisely, detective fiction, in which the reader is narratologically invited to identify with the detective – a procedure characteristic of postmodernism (e.g., Auster 1987) and developed in later ergodic experiments (Danielewski 2000; Abrams & Dorst 2013). Drawing briefly on Eco (Eco & Sebeok 1983) and Suits (1985), I suggest that this particular class of works sustains a robust sense in which literature can be a game. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k4mjjq3nmx7b317njxe2pkcr))