If On A Winter's Night A Traveler
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4.1 • 17 Ratings
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Publisher Description
"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." —from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular experimental novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before—offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers—in a truly unique work of metafiction—pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives.
"Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses." —New York Times Review of Books
Customer Reviews
A love letter to books. And reading. And readers
Fantastic. Recursive. You will not regret starting this story.
Fascinating
This book is truly a work of literary art. Each story told was encapsulating and had be disappointed when it would abruptly end, as the main character often felt. Since this is in the second person, it felt a little unconventional and hard to get into. Once i got into the groove, it was easier to get into and I was able to truly appreciate the novel.