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If on a winter's night a traveler
Title:
If on a winter's night a traveler
Uniform Title:
Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore. English
ISBN:
9780679420255
Publication Information:
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.
Physical Description:
xli, 254 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary:
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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