If on a winter's night a traveler - Couverture souple

Calvino, Italo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0156439611 ISBN 13 : 9780156439619

Editeur : Mariner Books, 1982

Synopsis

Book by Calvino Italo Weaver William Translator

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

“[Italo Calvino is] one of the world’s best fabulists.”
—John Gardner, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Calvino is a wizard.”
—Mary McCarthy, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS

“[Calvino] manages to charm and entertain the reader in the teeth of a scheme designed to frustrate all reasonable readerly expectations.”
—John Updike, THE NEW YORKER

“Calvino is that very rare phenomenon, a true original . . . If on a winter’s night a traveler is breathtakingly complex and self-conscious (there are moments when it quite literally makes one gasp with astonishment) . . . [yet it] is one of the most accessible and enchanting novels written in the last fifty years.”
—from the Introduction by Peter Washington

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Mariner Books
• Date d'édition: 1982
• ISBN 10: 0156439611
• ISBN 13: 9780156439619
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 272