If on a Winter's Night A Traveler |
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Author:
| Calvino, Italo |
Translator:
| Weaver, William |
Series title: | Everyman's Library Classics Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-85715-138-1 |
Publication Date: | Jun 1993 |
Publisher: | Everyman
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $35.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionCalvino'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