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IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER
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By: |
Italo Calvino |
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Hardback |
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ISBN 10: |
1857151380 |
ISBN 13: |
9781857151381 |
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Publisher: |
EVERYMAN |
Pub. date: |
20 May, 1993 |
Pages: |
254 |
Translated from: |
Italian |
Description: |
Based on a witty anaolgy 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 is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book - IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated. |
Synopsis: |
Calvino's dazzling post-modernist masterpiece combines a love story, a detective story and a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in a scintillating allegory of reading. Based on a witty anaolgy 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 is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of same book - IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT by Italo Calvino - are constantly and comically frustrated. THE ARABIAN NIGHTS of our day |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Everyman's Library |
Returns: |
Returnable |