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ISBN: 0156439611

ISBN13: 9780156439619

If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

Name: be prepared for a journey
Item: If on a Winter&#39;s Night a Traveler
Rating: 5
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By Italo Calvino

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Book Overview

"You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel...Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade." --from If On A Winter's Night a Traveler Italo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading.If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity and intelligence, exploring how our reading choices can shape and transform our lives. Originally published in 1979, Italo Calvino's singular novel crafted a postmodern narrative like never seen before--offering not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together, the stories form a labyrinth of literature known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers pursue the story lines that intrigue them and try to read each other. Deeply profound and surprisingly romantic, this classic is a beautiful meditation on the transformative power of reading and the ways we make meaning in our lives."Calvino is a wizard...There is no halting [this book's] metamorphoses." --New York Times Review of Books This description may be from another edition of this product.

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0156439611

ISBN13:9780156439619

Release Date:October 1982

Publisher:Mariner Books Classics

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.59 lbs.

Dimensions:8.0" x 0.6" x 5.3"

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Rated 5 stars
be prepared for a journey

By Thriftbooks.com User, October 12, 2005

Read carefully and you'll find that you are traveling -- Calvino takes you for a ride in this one. It's fun and intellectual. And Calvino is a master at the art of telling a good story.

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Damn you Calvino...

By Thriftbooks.com User, February 27, 2004

Italo Calvino has surpassed himself. He has taken the "relating to the character" feeling to new heights, by making everyone who picks this books up, a character of the book. He takes you to the edge around 10 odd times, in 100 beginning sof 10 unrelated stories, but holds you back from plunging into the story line. He gets you so frustrated...no thts not the word...mmm ok I will use the word, but with no negative connotation...He...

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Rated 5 stars
An Absolute Essential

By Thriftbooks.com User, April 29, 2000

You have to read this fascinating treatise on reading and writing. I've seen others complain about the weak ending and the lack of structure, but for chrissakes, it's not a Dragonlance novel- it's avant-garde prose. But that doesn't mean it's not accessible. Unlike Andre Breton's shoelace knots of words that you have to dwell on endlessly to untie, Italo Calvino is so easy to read that the prose slips past you a little too...

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