num_pages: 254
description: 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 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 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.
language: English
title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
titlecomplete: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
characters: Irnerio, Silas Flannery, Lotaria Vipiteno, Ermes Marana, The reader, Ludmilla Vipiteno
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Italian Literature, Italy, Classics, Books About Books, Fiction, Magical Realism
ratings_count: 93303
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Ars Translationis, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Ein Buch für die Stadt
publisher: Everyman