If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Everyman's Library Classics 138)

Calvino, Italo: Translated by William Weaver with an introduction by Peter Washington

ISBN 10: 1857151380 / ISBN 13: 9781857151381

Published by Everyman, London, 1993

About this Item

First printing in this format. Name to front free endpaper otherwise a firm, clean copy in complete dustwrapper.

Seller Inventory # 007741

Bibliographic Details

• Title: If on a Winter's Night a Traveller (Everyman's Library Classics 138)
• Publisher: Everyman, London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857151380
• ISBN 13: 9781857151381
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

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

About the Author

Italo Calvino was born in Cuba in 1923 and grew up in Italy. He was an essayist and journalist and a member of the editorial staff of Einaudi in Turin. One of the most respected writers of our time, his best-known works of fiction include Invisible Cities, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Marcovaldo and Mr Palomar. In 1973 he won the prestigious Premio Feltrinelli. He died in 1985. A collection of Calvino's posthumous personal writings, The Hermit in Paris, was published in 2003.