If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler: Introduction by Peter Washington

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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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Contributors: Italo Calvino,William Weaver (Translator),Peter Washington (Introduction by)
Published: 06/01/1993
Publisher: Everyman’s Library
ISBN: 9780679420255
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 0.90″ H x 8.30″ L x 5.22″ W

About the Author
Italo Calvino’s works include Numbers in the Dark, The Road to San Giovanni, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Baron in the Trees, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar. He died in 1985.