If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
โ Scribed by Calvino, Italo
- Book ID
- 107684519
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 171 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780156439619
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โฆ Synopsis
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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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a marvel of ingenuity, an experimental text that looks longingly back to the great age of narration--"when time no longer seemed stopped and did not yet seem to have exploded." Italo Calvino's novel is in one sense a comedy in which the two protagonists, the Read
One of the most unusual love affairs in literature, If On A Winter?s Night A Traveller is a captivating game of suspense into which we are irresistibly pulled. (1995) \*\*
**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