If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
A Traveler
$37.62
- Hardcover
296 pages
- Release Date
15 June 1993
Summary
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 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 is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book - IF ON A WINTER’S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustra…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857151381 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857151380 |
| Author: | Italo Calvino |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 296 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 1993 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 212mm x 135mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics |
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Critics 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
About The Author
Italo Calvino
Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of the twentieth century, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino’s posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.
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