If on a Winter's Night a Traveler - Couverture rigide

Calvino, Italo

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0679420258 ISBN 13 : 9780679420255

Editeur : Everyman's Library, 1993

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Italo Calvino's works include Numbers in the Dark, The Road to San Giovanni, Six Memos for the Next Millennium, The Baron in the Trees, If on a Winter's Night a Traveller, Invisible Cities, Marcovaldo, and Mr. Palomar. He died in 1985.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Everyman's Library
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0679420258
• ISBN 13: 9780679420255
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 304
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• Personne responsable: non disponible