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Italo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character. “The single most resonant and carefully imagined book of Dick’s career.” — New York TimesBased on a witty analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, If On A Winter's Night A Traveler is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book are constantly and comically frustrated. If On A Winter's Night A Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literature, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another."Calvino is that very rare phenomenon, a true original... If on a winter’s night a traveler is breathtakingly complex and self-conscious (there are moments when it quite literally makes one gasp with astonishment)... [yet it] is one of the most accessible and ench

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Author

Italo Calvino

Publisher

Vintage Children s Classics; Vintage Classics

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781784870614

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Romance, Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.08 / 5 (39 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14