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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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1. I started to read this book with absolutely no idea of what it is about. From page 5 (the passage about all the different kinds of books) I was hooked. That was very smart and witty writing, I thought. And there are many such passages scattered in the bo...
评分1. I started to read this book with absolutely no idea of what it is about. From page 5 (the passage about all the different kinds of books) I was hooked. That was very smart and witty writing, I thought. And there are many such passages scattered in the bo...
评分1. I started to read this book with absolutely no idea of what it is about. From page 5 (the passage about all the different kinds of books) I was hooked. That was very smart and witty writing, I thought. And there are many such passages scattered in the bo...
评分1. I started to read this book with absolutely no idea of what it is about. From page 5 (the passage about all the different kinds of books) I was hooked. That was very smart and witty writing, I thought. And there are many such passages scattered in the bo...
评分1. I started to read this book with absolutely no idea of what it is about. From page 5 (the passage about all the different kinds of books) I was hooked. That was very smart and witty writing, I thought. And there are many such passages scattered in the bo...
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