# If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Paperback

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by **Italo Calvino** (Author)

**"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." --from _If On A Winter's Night a Traveler_**

**Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading.**

_If on a Winter's Night a Traveler_ is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular experimental novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before--offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers--in a truly unique work of metafiction--pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives.

"Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting \[this book's\] metamorphoses." _\--New York Times Review of Books_

**Number of Pages:** 272

**Dimensions:** 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN

**Publication Date:** October 20, 1982

## Details

- **Price:** 25.99 GBP
- **Vendor:** BooksCloud
- **Type:** Books
- **Tags:** Books, Classics, Fiction, Literary, Price Written on Book, Suspense, Thrillers

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