If on a Winter's Night a Traveler (Everyman's Library Classics) - Hardcover

Calvino, Italo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1857151380 ISBN 13: 9781857151381

Publisher: Everyman, 1993

Synopsis

Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy between the reader's desire to finish the story and the lover's desire to consummate his or her passion, IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book - IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day

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Review:

"[Italo Calvino is] one of the world's best fabulists."--John Gardner, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW "Calvino is a wizard."--Mary McCarthy, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS "[Calvino] manages to charm and entertain the reader in the teeth of a scheme designed to frustrate all reasonable readerly expectations."--John Updike, THE NEW YORKER "Calvino is that very rare phenomenon, a true original . . . If on a winter's night a traveler is breathtakingly complex and self-conscious (there are moments when it quite literally makes one gasp with astonishment) . . . [yet it] is one of the most accessible and enchanting novels written in the last fifty years."--from the Introduction by Peter Washington

Book Description:

KEY NOTES: * Stunning new covers to increase backlist sales. * A legendary writer who, with this title, has treated us to one of the most enjoyable, playful, magical and influential European books of the century. * Praise for If non a winter's night: 'As captivaing and intelligent a conjuring act as you are likely to find in a years reading' - Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 1857151380
• ISBN 13: 9781857151381
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 296