# If on a Winter's Night a Traveler: Introduction by Peter Washington - Hardcover

by **Italo Calvino** (Author), **William Weaver** (Translator), **Peter Washington** (Introduction by)

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.

### Front Jacket

Introduction by Peter Washington; Translation by William Weaver

### Back Jacket

This exhilarating interactive novel--in which the reader, lured into the text by the enticements of Italo Calvino's splendid intelligence, turns into the book's central character--was its author's triumphant response to the question of whether the art of fiction could survive the vast changes taking place in the communications technology of our world.

### Author Biography

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.

**Number of Pages:** 304

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 8.3 x 5.22 IN

**Publication Date:** June 01, 1993

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