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.
If on a winter's night a traveler
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.
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| ISBN-13: | 9780156439619 |
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| Publisher: | Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
| Publication date: | 10/28/1982 |
| Edition description: | First Edition |
| Pages: | 272 |
| Sales rank: | 25,157 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.02(w) x 10.86(h) x 0.69(d) |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
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