If on a winter's night a traveler
Italo Calvino, William Weaver (Translator)
Calvino shows that the novel, far from being a dead form, is capable of endless mutations. 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. Based on an analogy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, this book is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book are constantly and comically frustrated
Print Book, English, ©1981
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, ©1981
World literature
260 pages ; 22 cm
9780151436897, 9780156439619, 9780679420255, 9781857151381, 9780015143688, 0151436894, 0156439611, 0679420258, 1857151380, 0015143686
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A novel
"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."
Translation of: Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore. Torino : Einaudi, c1979