If On A Winter's Night A Traveller

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. 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

• | Author: Italo Calvino
• | Publisher: Everyman
• | Publication Date: May 20, 1993
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781857151381
• | ISBN-10: 1857151380