If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino [COLLECTOR'S EDITION HARDCOVER ] 1993 • Everyman's Library

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino

HARDCOVER COLLECTOR'S EDITION [1993] EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY

Small cloth-bound hardcover with dust jacket and sewn-in silken bookmark.

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.   Some wear to bookmark, but otherwise beautiful.   Reads like new.

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 Traveller is the tale of two bemused readers whose attempts to reach the end of the same book, If On A Winter's Night A Traveller 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.