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- Author: Italo Calvino
- Publisher: Everyman's Library
- Year: 1993
- Pages: 254
- ISBN-10: 0679420258
- ISBN-13: 9780679420255
- Format: 13.3 x 21.1 x 2.3 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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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.
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- Author: Italo Calvino
- Publisher: Everyman's Library
- Year: 1993
- Pages: 254
- ISBN-10: 0679420258
- ISBN-13: 9780679420255
- Format: 13.3 x 21.1 x 2.3 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
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.
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