If on a Winter's Night a Traveler Author:Italo Calvino "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambiance, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, though which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intr... more »igue them and one another. They are the true heroes of the novel, for what would writing be without readers?
Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver« less