(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) Introduction by Peter
Washington; Translation by William Weaver Italo Calvino's
masterpiece combines a love story and a detective story into an
exhilarating allegory of reading, in which the reader of the book
becomes the book's central character. Based on a witty analogy
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 A
TRAVELER is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach
the end of the same book--IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELER, by
Italo Calvino, of course--are constantly and comically frustrated.
In between chasing missing chapters of the book, the hapless
readers tangle with an international conspiracy, a rogue
translator, an elusive novelist, a disintegrating publishing house,
and several oppressive governments. The result is a literary
labyrinth of storylines that interrupt one another--an Arabian
Nights of the postmodern age.
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