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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerClassic FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780156439619
Publisher: Mariner Books Classics
Published: Oct 20 1982
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade. --from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular experimental novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before--offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers--in a truly unique work of metafiction--pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives.
Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses. --New York Times Review of Books
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