If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino

Descriere If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Italo Calvino

\n \n \n \nIntroduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver\n \n \n \nItalo Calvino's masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book becomes the book's central character.\n \n \n \nBased on a witty analogy 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 A TRAVELER is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book--IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, by Italo Calvino, of course--are constantly and comically frustrated. In between chasing missing chapters of the book, the hapless readers tangle with an international conspiracy, a rogue translator, an elusive novelist, a disintegrating publishing house, and several oppressive governments. The result is a literary labyrinth of storylines that interrupt one another--an Arabian Nights of the postmodern age.\n

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EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY

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9780679420255

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1

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