Description: Title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: Introduction by Peter Washington Author: Calvino, Italo Publisher: Everyman's Library Binding: Hardcover Pages: 304 Dimensions: 8.30h x 5.22w x 0.90d Product Weight: 0.93 lbs. Language: English ISBN: 9780679420255 Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo 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. 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 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. Ships Fast From The USA! Authorized Dealer
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Original Language: Italian
Book Title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler : Introduction by Peter Washington
Number of Pages: 304 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Topic: Psychological, Classics, Literary
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 1993
Genre: Fiction
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Author: Italo Calvino
Item Length: 8.3 in
Book Series: Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Ser.
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Hardcover
