num_pages: 208
description: If on a winter's night a traveller is unquestionably the work of one of the new masters of world literature. It is a fiction about fictions, a novel about novels, a book about books. Its chief protagonists are its author and his reader. Its progress traces the reading of a novel and the consummation of a love affair. In its course a whole shelf of novels are begun and - for reasons at the time entirely reasonable - never finished. Its characters are the myriad of beings involved with the process of creation, construction and consumption of The Book.~from the back cover
language: English
title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
titlecomplete: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
characters: Ermes Marana, Silas Flannery, Ludmilla Vipiteno, Irnerio, The reader, Lotaria Vipiteno
genres: Fiction, Books About Books, Magical Realism, Italy, Literature, Classics, Novels, 20th Century, Italian Literature, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 93318
awards: awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Ars Translationis, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Ein Buch für die Stadt
publisher: Picador