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{ Oct 2020 - Verified ebook } Paperback, 260 pages Published 1979 Vintage Books (1998) Book Riot 100 Modern Classics (1950-1997) TheGreatestBooks.org Top 500 Ever | Translated by: William Weaver First published in Italy in 1980 under the title Se una notte d’inverno un viaggiatore 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. Based 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 Traveller is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino, of course, are constantly and comically frustrated. In between chasing missing chapters of the book, the hapless readers tangle with an international conspiracy, a rogue translator, an elusive novelist, a disintegrating publishing house, and several oppressive governments. The result is a literary labyrinth of storylines that interrupt one another - an Arabian Nights of the postmodern age. You go into a bookshop and buy If on a

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Author

Italo Calvino

Publisher

Vintage, Penguin Random House

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9781446414330

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Romance, Fiction

Rating

4.08 / 5 (2,538 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14