Italo Calvino imagines a novel capable of endless mutations in this intricately crafted story about writing and readers.
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler turns out to be not one novel but ten, each with a different plot, style, ambience, and author, and each interrupted at a moment of suspense. Together they form a labyrinth of literatures, known and unknown, alive and extinct, through which two readers, a male and a female, pursue both the story lines that intrigue them and one another.
- ISBN10 0156439611
- ISBN13 9780156439619
- Publish Date 20 October 1982 (first published 1 January 1981)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 24 February 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harcourt Brace International
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English