If on a winter's night a traveler

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If on a winter's night a traveler

Italo Calvino ; translated from the Italian by William Weaver ; with an introduction by Peter Washington

(Everyman's library, 138)

D. Campbell , Distributed by Random House, c1993

Other Title

Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore

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Note

First published: Martin Secker & Warburg, 1981

Bibliography: p. xxvi-xxvii

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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 anaolgy 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 same book - IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day

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  • NCID
    BA20279017
  • ISBN
    • 1857151380
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    ita
  • Place of Publication
    London,London
  • Pages/Volumes
    xli, 254 p.
  • Size
    21 cm
  • Classification
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