If On A Winter's Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino 1992 Paperback NEW

from the_awesome_opossum

Reading If on a winter's night a traveler is like being in a tug-of-war-slash-slapfight with the author the entire time you're reading, engaged but combative. Oh, and you lose of course, because readers are pretty much at the mercy of authors and their works. Right? The entire book is about You, ...

from TheAmpersand

Or "Nine First Chapters In Search of a Narrative" Calvino's "If On a Winter's Night a Traveler" might be the thorniest, grandest, most ambitious post-everything meta-novel I've ever read. It's full of starts, stops, in-jokes and digressions, but in the end, it turns out to be an interesting, and ...

from AndrewBlackman

Reviewing this book in the New Yorker, John Updike said that it "manages to charm and entertain the reader in the teeth of a scheme designed to frustrate all reasonable readerly intentions." I don't think I can put it any better, so you may want to stop reading now. But I'll put down the rest of ...

from knerd.knitter

This book was amazing. As usual, I'm late to the party since this book came out before I was born, but I can now say that in reading it I was floored. I was also strangely reminded of a series of books... an unfortunate series... the self-aware narrator, bizarre characters, meta-fictional element...

from dmsteyn

Watch out, Reader; here everything is different from what it seems, everything is two-faced... You are about to read a review of If on a Winter's Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino... Ok, I will not attempt to mimic Calvino's style, though it would be interesting to write a review referring to a ...