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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Author: Italo Calvino

ISBN: 9780156439619 Format: Paperback Number Of Pages: 272 Published: 20 October 1982 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 20.07 x 13.21 x 2.03 Description: Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.

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, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.

About the Author

Italo Calvino (Italian: [?i?talo kal?vi?no]; 15 October 1923 - 19 September 1985) was an Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels. His best known works include the Our Ancestors trilogy (1952-1959), the Cosmicomics collection of short stories (1965), and the novels Invisible Cities (1972) and If on a winter's night a traveler (1979).

Admired in Britain and the United States, he was the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the ...

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