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If on a winter's night a traveller is unquestionably the work of one of the new masters of world literature. It is a fiction about fictions, a novel about novels, a book about books. Its chief protagonists are its author and his reader. Its progress traces the reading of a novel and the consummation of a love affair. In its course a whole shelf of novels are begun and - for reasons at the time entirely reasonable - never finished. Its characters are the myriad of beings involved with the process of creation, construction and consumption of The Book. ~from the back cover
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
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- Released
- 1982
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- Title
- If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Italo Calvino
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 1982
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN10
- 0330267159
- ISBN13
- 9780330267151
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Classics, Fun, Stories, Southern Europe, Italy, Italian Literature, Magical Realism, About Books, Reading, Metafiction
- First published
- 1979
- Original title
- Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
- Rating
- 3.85 out of 5
- Description
- If on a winter's night a traveller is unquestionably the work of one of the new masters of world literature. It is a fiction about fictions, a novel about novels, a book about books. Its chief protagonists are its author and his reader. Its progress traces the reading of a novel and the consummation of a love affair. In its course a whole shelf of novels are begun and - for reasons at the time entirely reasonable - never finished. Its characters are the myriad of beings involved with the process of creation, construction and consumption of The Book. ~from the back cover