If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
If on a Winter's Night a Traveller
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Summary
Traces the reading of a novel with the author and his reader as the main protagonists. In the course of this novel a whole shelf of novels are begun but never finished. The characters are the myriad of beings involved with the process of creation, construction and consumption of "The Book".
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino
Traces the reading of a novel with the author and his reader as the main protagonists. In the course of this novel a whole shelf of novels are begun but never finished. The characters are the myriad of beings involved with the process of creation, construction and consumption of The Book.
Italo Calvino (1923--1985) was born in Cuba and grew up in San Remo, Italy. He was a member of the partisan movement during the German occupation of northern Italy in World War II. The novel that resulted from that experience, published in English as The Path to the Nest of Spiders, won widespread acclaim. His other works of fiction include The Baron in the Trees, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Cosmicomics, Difficult Loves, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, Mr. Palomar, The Nonexistent Knight & the Cloven Viscount, t zero, Under the Jaguar Sun, The Watcher and Other Stories, and Numbers in the Dark. His works of nonfiction include include The Road to San Giovanni and Six Memos for the Next Millennium.
SKU | Unavailable |
ISBN 13 | 9780749399238 |
ISBN 10 | 0749399236 |
Title | If on a Winter's Night a Traveller |
Author | Italo Calvino |
Condition | Unavailable |
Binding type | Paperback |
Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
Year published | 1992-02-20 |
Number of pages | 272 |
Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
Note | Unavailable |