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If On a Winter's Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino

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If On a Winter's Night a Traveller

Picador (7 May 1982)
9780330267151
| Paperback
208 pages | 130 x 193 mm | English
$ 4.99 | Value: $ 4.99

Subject

  • Fiction / Literary

Plot

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